Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barber Shop Ballads, points out that in "ancient" days barber shops were provided with lutes or citterns with which waiting patrons could occupy themselves. Also he suggests that "perhaps a barber shop chord is, after all, merely one which mutilates or dresses up some conventional formula of music." Negro Scholar James Weldon Johnson recalls that all barbers in the South used to be black, that every shop had a quartet whose members passed their time experimenting with novel harmonies, sometimes to the accompaniment of demands to "Hold it! Hold...
...characteristics of his grandfather. Louis Philippe, the "Bourgeois-King'' of France, had no liking for display, became known as the worst-dressed monarch of modern times. In the early years of his reign he inaugurated colonial reforms, associated with Socialist politicians, granted universal suffrage, was considered a scholar and mountain climber who was always badly in need of a haircut...
...Japanese brigades last week, much of North China seemed to have been brought under the rule of Tokyo without a fight and by sheer bullying bluff. Suddenly, however, there was plenty of fighting at Peiping last week and behind it loomed the dramatic shadow of "The Scholar War Lord...
Amid the corrupt peasant-born super-bandits who ruled various parts of China as "war lords" ten years ago, Marshal Wu Pei-fu was the one old-fashioned Confucian scholar. A sad-eyed, firm-jawed little man with shaved skull and bedraggled mustache, Wu is supposed to be a descendant of one of Confucius' favorite pupils. At ten he could recite from the Chinese classics interminably and with feeling. His own poetry shows a gift for direct metaphor unusual in an Oriental. He had, moreover, a competent grasp of military strategy; he was incorruptible, brave and patriotic; his followers...
...finally persuaded Denver's Frederick Hunter. He had been toughened to politics by public school administration in Nebraska and California. In seven years as Chancellor he had done a good, progressive job of building University of Denver up from a "street car college" into a serviceable university. No scholar, prophet or pioneer, he had yet won his colleagues' respect by proving himself an able, diplomatic administrator. Last week he soothingly promised to spend a year looking over the situation in Oregon. "A new chancellor ought not to make, and will not make, any changes in the current policies...