Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drinkers, says Seldes, had forgotten how to drink long before it became illegal to remember. Now "professional" drinkers have become as fanatical as Drys. "Until we learn how to drink at home with considerably more technical skill and social grace than we now possess, we will need the saloon as much as ever." Says Seldes: 100,000 speakeasies flourish in the U. S., not to satisfy the national taste for liquor but "our pride and a childish illusion of wickedness, a 'tawdry romanticism." No friend to Prohibition, Moderate Drinker Seldes believes in freedom to drink when you want...
...smaller institution may find it advisable to set up more restricted prerequisites in order that there may be less range in the type of preparation which its students shall have received. The larger college has facilities to serve students of widely differing tastes and interests, provided that they possess certain common fundamentals and are equipped to do work of high quality. Similarly preparatory schools in their own requirements will differ in the emphasis which they place upon certain subjects. This amount of variation seems to me highly desirable and not inimical to the interests of the college. Beyond those sources...
...three-hour grind in New Lecture Hall. Three hours at the end of a year and proceeded by an abbreviated period of the most intensive cramming is unfair to the undergraduate, perhaps ungifted with a glib pen, who has worked steadily throughout the year and can be said to possess a comprehensive and appreciative knowledge of his subject. The final examination is, too, a boon to the man who makes a desperate last minute effort, attended by a visit to the tutoring schools, to cover the work sufficiently for a passing mark. It is too easily done...
Referring to the French he observed, "never was a clearer spectacle of human hypocrisy seen. It would appear that only in Italy are there airplanes, because elsewhere quite obviously there are only innocent tissue paper kites. Only Italy is so arrogant as to possess a fleet for war purposes, because other nations have ships only for fishing or for taking pleasure trips...
...desirable social amenity. . . . Americans [in Europe, where he has seen them] are divided into two classes: the Drys and the Dry Martinians." Asked by a reporter if he favored Prohibition, said he: "But for Italy-No. . . . We Italians are not blessed with the great sense of humor the Americans possess...