Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feminists in the American Woman's Association. Women have come into the business world with a contribution of their own to offer . . . we are self-supporting . . . we are going to build a 26-story building for professional and business women . . . you [the assembled] are now our partners . . . your $200 has purchased each of you four shares in the project...
When Anne Morgan staged a prizefight in Madison Square Garden for the benefit of the War-wracked French peasants, it was not because she was a spinster who had sublimated her activities in "uplift" work. It was because she was a self-determined business woman and a fight was a good stunt. And today, at 54, she more than ever represents and leads independent members of her sex. A business woman, says Miss Morgan, is best characterized by "her utter disregard of business habits...
...instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body in a coffee sack, his head in a tin pot, who took Swedenborgian Bibles to the Indians and in 46 years of roaming planted fruitful apple pips over 100,000 square miles of Middle America...
Bearlike Artamonov Sr. becomes almost lovable during his invasion of the town of Dryomov, with hia masterful bluntness, self-assurance, genuine humility, faith in work; his crude affection for his sons, his bold carnality. Pyotr, the eldest son, is no less stupid than his father except that he knows he is stupid. His endless wondering about the right and wrong of things is what undoes him. Did he kill the clerk's nasty little boy by accident, he asks himself, or in malice, or to save his own son an evil companionship. He cannot decide that and a hundred...
...violated grammar is chief source of revenue. Like any system, there is a defect. Thrifty pupils come to regard bad grammar as a luxury. Said a seven-year-old economist: "Sure, I use bad grammar, but I wait till I'm out in the street, see?" Said a self-indulgent eight-year-old, displaying a dime: "Momma give me two ain'ts for my birthday...