Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President did poetic justice. Last week, after due consideration, he appointed Judge Wallace McCamant of Portland, Ore., Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1920, after due consideration, Wallace McCamant rose in the Republican National Convention at Chicago, after the weary siege when Mr. Harding was nominated, named Calvin Coolidge for Vice President...
...world was represented at the convention by persons from Great Britain, Cuba, Peru, Switzerland, Mexico, China, and by an official message from Japan. Some thoughts-religious, poetic, economic-brought forward...
...Stillman, who is a former pupil of Professor Norton, has specified that the word "Poetry" as used in his endowment should be interpreted in its widest sense. It is the intention of the giver that the term "Poetry" shall include, together with Verse, all poetic expression in language, music, or in the Fine Arts, under which term architecture may be included...
...once said that he had the most profound influence on students of any man in the history of the University; he was a man of the broadest and most liberal sympathies. The very comprehensive interpretation of Poetry, therefore, is altogether in keeping with his spirit which felt the essential poetic harmony of the various arts. In the present educational era where men are tempted to specialize or at best to concentrate largely on one field of knowledge, the establishment of certain courses where the student may have a better opportunity to "see life steadily and see it whole" is more...
...Lawson objects to the use of the term "expressionism" in connection with the play. I do not blame him; in fact I should approve a temporary entombment of the word until we are able to see these plays in retrospect. Certainly it can not be called realism, that poetic articulation of the hero and that some what exotic and thoroughly ureal symbol of the moon. If the author sees fit to tumble houses in incoherent masses on his back-drop, if he chooses to induce the Russian quality of the Fates in the person of the garbage...