Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is to say, in a population of some 120 millions there is a little group of 140,000 who adhere to a brand of delusion known as Christian Science; and, in view of the fact that it is a delusion that fosters the withholding of toxin antitoxin from children choking with diphtheria, it is to say that even...
...last day [of the War] and the last hour, and almost the last minute, when to glorify the Canadian Headquarters Staff, the Commander-in-Chief conceived the mad idea that it would be a fine thing to say that the Canadians had fired the last shot in the Great War and had captured the last German entrenchments before the bugles sounded 11 o'clock, when the armistice which had been signed by both sides would begin officially...
...feature article of the present number is a resume by Dean Hanford of all the Reading Period results so far apparent. Treatment of this subject scarcely lies within the reviewer's province--suffice it to say that for a concise summary of Reading Period records and of the most important suggestions which have been advanced for improvement in future Reading Periods Dean Hanford here offers all that could be desired...
...candidate: "You have imitated the Sherwood Anderson stuff, and quite successfully, too. But we won't want that sort of thing. It's too casy to write." In substance this is what Mr. Chase has too easy to write." In substance this is what Mr. Chase has to say about Anderson. This is a critical study of a man who wrote his first novel at forty, leaving the swivel chair of presidency in an Elyria, Ohio, paint factory to build himself a new life of meaning...
...Shadows, for example, are no longer a mere means for the expression of the likeness of form or even of light effects, but are motives for design in paint. The emphasis is placed on harmony of brush stroke, on play of color over the surface, on decoration. Who can say that when this is done well it is not worth while? Isn't it the proper and genuine attitude for the painter to take...