Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Competition of a highly developed sort has been introduced into the business of endowment fund campaigns. The old order changeth and the prosaic pleas, "give for alma mater", and "for the interests of higher education", bow before the potency of an appeal to the sporting instinct. Stipulations and conditions involving mathematical gymnastics come not single handed but in troops, forming a kind of geometrio progression, as the Law School Fund swells. Competitive giving pays best...
...seen his brother grow dull-eyed and prosaic in the business, his father has died while in the harness, and his ancient grandfather still lives for the mills...
...monster has arisen, which threatens to absorb us, annex us,--call it what new-fangled name ye will! We are hampered by the Port! While we of old Cambridge have been enlightening the world, dreaming with Plato, fighting with Calvin, discussing with Darwin, a town--a modern, busy, trading, prosaic, mushroom, damnable town--has been started, is growing beneath our very nose- We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government,"--we are not sure that the College, whose refining, softening, broadening influence has so long been felt throughout the whole country, is not partly in the power...
...that one a million; to another a million and a half. Part of the legend is, of course, that no partner ever questions Mr. Morgan's division of earnings. The tale is one that captures the glamorous imaginations of Wall Street men who like to think themselves prosaic. There is less truth in it than in the fable of King Midas whose touch turned all to gold. The ancient myths were not, as this modern one, groundless...
...Some are firm lines with tiny hairs on them, like a cricket's thigh. Some are more delicate and hesitant, like timid creatures creeping from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like a witch's pin or a bat's flight. None are straightforward or prosaic. Together, colored over and shaded in with pale washes, they create pictures of a world, half small-animal, half fairy, in which no one could fail to believe, if only because it is quaint, beautiful, impossible...