Word: pragmatist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wang Yang Ming, I'dealist and Pragmatist of the Ming Dynasty". Professor Porter, Sever...
Father d'Astier was this intelligent pragmatist, who never would have bothered to explain but for his exasperation that the stupid dolt was his son (illegitimate of course). He himself, suave, charming, had devoted his career to the greater need of the Church, and converted to Catholicism the rich and the powerful...
...Samuel Atkins Eliot: "The literary executors of my late father, President Emeritus Charles William Eliot of Harvard University, are myself and Jerome Davis Greene, his onetime secretary. Last week we authorized Henry James, son of Pragmatist William James, nephew and namesake of the novelist, to prepare my father's biography. Biographer James is a Harvard overseer. He wrote The Life of Richard Olney...
Conceivably there are three possible reactions to this state of affairs. "As good a criterion as any other" might be the observation of the cynic, or "Another argument for good teams," that of the pragmatist. But to the serious and thoughtful observer, these facts cannot fail to bring a renewed appreciation of the extent to which the distorted sense of values induced by the present overemphasis of football, has seeped into American academic life...
Doctor Samuel Johnson, that eminent pragmatist, never took off his shoes and danced on a wire. Had he done so, he well knew, he would have given any alert dog the opportunity of pontifying of him, as he once did of a dancing canine. "The wonder is not that he should do it badly, but that he should do it at all." Fearful of becoming the butt of such quadrupedantry, the wise Dr. Johnson abjured wires, seldom removed his shoes.* Not so cautious was Roger Fry, proclaimed by many educated people to be the best Art critic in the world...