Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your brilliancy of writing sometimes makes the meaning a trifle cryptic, but she enjoys discovering it in her own fashion and finds no objection to it on the score of its not being obvious. She expects to remain a constant reader and admirer as in the past...
...pages of the press. Miss Millay's libretto was superb: "sensible and singable," quaintly flavored. Only the gum-chewers' Daily News, whose music critic signs herself "Debutante," found the opera lacking in distinction. She falsely announced: "Alas! Those who came . . . may not have scoffed but they certainly did not remain to pray...
...latest of twentieth century parlor games. To be successful in this newest diversion one must be equipped with encyclopedic knowledge, a devilish curiosity, and a detailed information on subjects ranging from to quote examples from the Transcript Wagner to "four important breeds of dairy cattle." The dilettantes will accordingly, remain to blush unseen, for the last requirement of victory is a college education. Ignorance is no longer a la mode...
...decline of petting. To the calloused, however, who have successively witnessed the reign of crossword puzzles, Charleston and channel swimming, "Ask Me Another" means only a brief respite from insanity. For a few months Webster and the Britannica will be best sellers; but in the end the nation will remain untainted by the renaissance of learning. Thinking offers amusement for those who have never tried it, but if practised continually it hurts the head...
...character which the individual possesses. To prevent a student of high ranking from driving an automobile is to give unpleasant medicine to a healthy person. If automobiles do affect scholarship they should be forbidden to those on whom the effect is unfortunate--the others might in all justice remain happy in their enjoyment of the wages of virtue...