Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swerve from his quixotic Irish Nationalism "he could have occupied some of the highest offices of State." Instead he has remained "Tay Pay," a man who, as the friends and causes of his youth have died, has made innumerable new friends but kept the causes that he serves peculiar to himself...
...Right Rev. James Henry Darlington, Bishop of Harrisburg, who recently advanced 13 peculiar "joys" which young men could secure by taking Holy Orders (TIME, Feb. 20), spoke, in Manhattan upon this topic: The Holy Comforter, or Vision and Supervision. Said he: "We have many saints in our higher offices today . . . there are many flapper saints in short skirts. . . . We should all try to get back to the childhood spirit. . . ." In addition, Bishop Darlington asserted that only one person in 500 communes "directly" with the Holy Ghost; that he would introduce jazz music into services if he thought it would bring...
True enough, most of this has been noted before. But Author Merz's book is the final all-inclusive footnote on Babbittry, written with a reporter's peculiar genius for marshalling an army of items into significant categories. It must be remembered, however, that a newer school of thought has evidence that Mr. Bab bitt laughs as heartily at his own humbug-Aeries and homilies as does the sophisticate...
Those who have found the weather disagreeable this winter will sympathize heartily with Mr. Robert Condit of Miami, Florida, not, however, because weather in Florida has fallen below its usual standards of hotel prospectus perfection, but because the peculiar atmospheric conditions of the last few weeks have prevented Professor Condit, for such is his title, from making a most ambitious long distance flight. Mr. Condit, who sees elevating possibilities in the study of chemistry, has constructed an ingenious, gas-filled contrivance, which will project him permanently into the ether. For his destination, he has chosen rather than the conventional mars...
Yammering among educational, athletic and apostolic authorities as to whether the football player shall be allowed to play football, a question that enjoys a peculiar frightfulness just after the season, has just had a particularly obnoxious renascence. With the open season a month over, the familiar problem has pushed up the cover of the ashcan, straightened its necktie, shined its shoes on its trouser legs, and strode boldly into the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Carnegie Foundation has, by means of intelligence tests (and what a world of blasted hopes and teary smiles is in those...