Word: sage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anathemata are to him: "Pish Posh!" he labels in a Rage The writings of that Worthy Sage, That Man of Superhuman Brain, The Syndicated Doctor Crane, And loudly voices his Dislike For the Reverend Doctor H. van Dyke...
...good humorist and still remain a human being. Irvin Cobb has done that; but, after all, his humor is Brobdingnagian. It partakes of brown gravy, and of cream puffs thrown wantonly. F. P. A. is occasionally human, though at times he seems to become the war sage looking at life through the war glasses of an ironist. Robert C. Benchley is almost human. Perhaps if I could see him weep once, I should actually believe in his humanity. Thomas Masson is human; but his humor is the genial story. He is the raconteur. He is not a nifty hound like...
...rate, Mr. Clarence Arthur Perry, of the National Committee for Better Films, Russell Sage Foundation, now stands ready to give you the "lowdown" on just how the movies affect your growing family? what they like and dislike on the silver screen, what effect, if any, it has on their adolescent minds, their own pet actors and actresses?statistics 'n all." In fact about the only thing he hasn't done to the unsuspecting high school pupils of 76 American cities and large towns is to lay them...
...obtainment of an education at Dartmouth is the faculty. Most of its members are teaching because it would be impossible for them to succeed at any other trade". It is to be regretted that these particular Juniuses have found it necessary to become personal, to strike at particular sage heads about the faculty table...
...Arthur Conan Doyle: " When interviewed in regard to my proposed trip to America, I remarked that Americans are too interested in table-tipping and other material phenomena and not in the real mes- sage of spiritualism...