Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite top-notch but cheerfully active is a large group of hostesses who produce parties in the light-opera class. Typical of this group are: Mrs. John B. Henderson, the self-appointed social guardian of the diplomatic corps in Washington, objects to meat, tobacco, alcohol and short skirts-except when bearing foreign labels. She wants to change the name of 16th Street, where stands her famed brown castle, to "The Avenue of the Presidents." Her swimming pool is open to foreigners almost exclusively. Once she offered the nation a home for the Vice President. When it was declined she sold...
...front door and rushed frantically within. The house had been ransacked. Silver, jewelry and securities to the value of 50,000 francs were gone-not much in the U. S., scarcely $2,000, but much to grizzled Joseph Joffre. When excited gendarmes came, the Marshal, no longer his fat self of younger days but very thin and trembly, exclaimed, "Whoever burglarized my house was no Frenchman. That, I could not believe...
...deep conviction, which should amount almost to a religious repentance, that we Chinese are backward in everything and that every other modern nation in the world is much better off than we are. For all this we have ourselves to blame! Let us no longer deceive ourselves with self-complacent talks about imperialistic powers hampering our national progress and prosperity. Let us read the recent history of Japan and bury our conceit and self-deception once for all in shame and repentance...
Last week in a Manhattan vaudeville theatre a man was speaking. "Nietzsche's," he said, "is the present philosophy of the Occidental world, with its gospel of self-assertion and self-expression, personal liberty and personal success." Beside him, on the stage, white lilies curved from the mouths of six vases. "Christ's stern and gentle philosophy, so much more readily understood by the Oriental mind, is the way of self-abnegation, of losing oneself in something beyond oneself." Occasionally, an Indian name came to his lips, hesitant syllables cascaded to a tenebrous penult: Rabindranath Tagore. Sometimes he men- tioned...
...life and then turned poet. Rebel against the Puritanism of her day (1830-86) she could hardly have made the sacrifice from prudishness. But perhaps it was from gentle reluctance to distress the preacher's wife, and her own family. Or perhaps it was a mystic self-denial that gave her the dream of perfection instead of the disappointing inadequacies of fulfillment. This is the solution implied by many of her poems...