Word: pedanticism
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THE life William Wordsworth touches only at rare intervals that higher inconsistency which is popularly conceded to poets. The conventionality of his prosaic life is as unconventional as "poetic rapture" would be in the pecadilloes of George Babbitt. In an attempt of fit Wordsworth into the poetic niche of the...
Pride of the Irish Free State is the $35,000,000 River Shannon canal and hydroelectric power plant which the Berlin firm of Siemens-Schuckert is rapidly completing for the Government. Part of the plant was in operation last week when pedantic German engineers hurried to the office of General...
Ecuador. Panama and Peru from Spanish rule, founded and gave his name to Bolivia. He died penniless and in a borrowed nightshirt at San Pedro Alejandrino, Colombia, of tuberculosis, Dec. 17, 1830. Said he: "All we have gained is independence, and we have gained it at the cost of everything...
May I ask what you find more academic about the School of Drama (which is not a part of the University) than the Department of Naval Science and Tacties? Is there anything abstrusely pedantic about footlights, jazz, spangles, and immorality glorified under the name of art? If drilling has no...
On a sultry evening in the House of Lords last week, peers of the realm reclined at their ease on red leather benches thinking, most of them, of "The Twelfth," immemorial August opening of Britain's grouse season. That most pedantic Laborite peer, snowy-haired Baron Parmoor, Lord President...