Word: prospered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indeed, it would appear to be a sorry form of culture which cannot prosper when the lives of two humans of the same plane of intelligence run close together. Such companionships cause an interchange of ideas, a breaking down of barriers, wholly healthy. Surely, the simple fact of closely paralleled lives can be given but a small share of responsibility for the glorification of gentle mediocrity...
...open question whether it is at all valuable to the world to sweat that it may have the best that universal education and popular government have to offer. To many that best is a level of mediocrity; a level, moreover, to which brilliance must lower itself that dullness may prosper. These skeptics have their plausable case. Yet it may truly be said that society is confronted with a condition and not a theory. Democracy is in vogue; universal education in full swing. The improvements to be made must begin with the obvious faults of operation, the obvious misconceptions of education...
...Blind Goddess. Probably every cinema sets out more or less seriously to accomplish its purpose. Authors, directors 'and actors must believe in their product. The fact that this product is so often ridiculous does not alter matters. If a film does not prosper they can say it was far too subtle for the masses; if it does they can say it was Art. All of which is a preliminary to saying that The Blind Goddess does accomplish its purpose. It is a murder melodrama with the guilty one convicted via dictaphone. This sounds like any cinema; the film is however...
...heads of States should therefore not refuse to testify publicly their reverence for and obedience to the Kingdom of Christ if they wish their power to remain unimpaired, and their countries to prosper and progress. If princes and legitimately elected magistrates, in fact, were convinced that they command not in their own right but by the mandate of the Divine King it is easy to understand what sacred use they would make of their authority...
...company has departed for other cities and will continue presumably through the season. May Collins, a young and exceedingly lovely lady, plays Lady Teazle to good effect. O. P. Heggie, Henrietta Crosman and Julia Hoyt are a few of those in her train. They will doubtless prosper...