Word: sayes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personalities and looks of other people. If Mr. Foroughi has a bushy black beard, it is none of your confounded business. Did I or any other Persian ever tell you that you look like a monkey; no, because we do not care how you look. Did we ever say that your ex-president has a hooklike nose, or that your ambassador to Great Britain is usually conspicuous by his nose? No, that is none of our business; these matters though small, yet they create an international ill-feeling...
...seem an anomalous thing to say that the true scholar is out of place in our institutions of higher learning, but such is very frequently the case. Ever since the word went out that a college diploma was the only possible pass-key to wealth, wisdom, and social success, the rush of students coming to college for irrelevant reasons has threatened to swamp the true scholar. In 1895, the enrollment in American colleges was 45,000. At present it is well over 500,000. Some of the new arrivals came to snatch the technical training which would enable them...
...think, fair to say that the colleges have trained very few creative artists in any field of art, with the possible exception of literature. Even in that department it is interesting to recall Barrett Wendell's complaint that, during his twenty-five years as a teacher of English composition, he had produced not a single great writer...
...Uptown--Say It With Songs (Jolson). 9 to 10.30 o'clock...
...remaining performers and performances that "the show aside from the Marx brothers" need not even be taken into consideration. They are the evening's entertainment, and better could not be asked. They pull exactly the same sort of gag which they did in "The Cocoanuts" and "I'll Say She Is", and, wonderful to relate, it is just about as effective as it was in either of these preceding masterpieces. For example Harpo blows the same smoke bubbles; makes the same faces; goes through the same antics; and plays the same harp (or one that looks just like...