Word: searchings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...malicious advantage of ignorance and credulity. For one assumes that these editors are acquainted with their public, and have no intention of making themselves ridiculous in the eyes of their readers. If this assumption is correct, no excuse whatever can be found for those who are driven in their search for headlines beyond the bounds of the ludicrous and inane into the territory of the monstrous...
...certainly it is not the dilettante, however interesting he may be, who is making possible the refinement of living, but the specialist impervious to every other interest who burrows until he unearth his treasure. His importance to society, his conception of his own raison d'etre, hang on his search. And while his undergraduate, training can not have left him bare of all general knowledge, the necessity of keeping apace or in advance of the rush of discovery grants no opportunity for attention, however desirable, to other learning. But the faculty of being perfectly dull is an luborn talent...
WHATEVER WE DO ? Allan Upde-graff?John Day ($2.50). Cloppety-Clop. The little French train rushed through the pines toward Valloire, modest neighbor of Cannes, bearing Peleus Chalfont, young U. S. expatriate in search of health. Cloppety-Clop. The same little train bore the pretty Bobbie Parsons and her too ancient husband George, un- pleasantly far from his native Missouri. The toot of a motor horn. Came drunken old Henry-oh with ribalt Mimi, the Duchess. World-weary pilgrims, they journeyed back through the hills to the Temple of Hercules, there to utter loose prayers. Someone answered...
...What Metropolitan critics Would see as dazzling, grotesque or smartly degenerate the Haitians saw as libels on themselves. Finally the editor of Le Novelliste (Port-au-Prince) thundered: "If there existed a leper settlement, or sanitarium for paralytics, it is certain that this painter would probably go there in search of Haitian specimens. We suspect him of being one of those floating timber revolutionists that Russia has scattered across the world. It is the duty of the government and of the police to prevent these paintings from getting out of the country. No government should tolerate on its soil...
...separate and pursue their own course of life. Every woman has an ideal man of her own conception. Some are fortunate enough to meet him soon in life and to live happily ever after their first trip to the altar. My several marriages are stepping stones in my search for my masculine ideal...