Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon which William Randolph Hearst would run for U. S. Senator. Ensuing events at the Onondaga Hotel in Syracuse, where the convention was held, wrought one of those changes which no man could have planned yet which might have been brought off by any man possessed of native intelligence, self-respect and courage. Alfred Emanuel Smith had learned to despise William Randolph Hearst. In 1919, after Smith had striven to better New York City's milk supply and been balked by a Republican legislature, Hearst's press had viciously accused Smith of being in league with the milk...
...possibility of a group of undergraduates turning to serious music was hooted down as futile, and even worse, as unfitting. Unpleasantness was bound to result; the self-imposed ostracism of the University Glee Club from the intercollegiate organization brought more accusations of snobbishness; but the ideal was chosen, the standard set, and for better or worse Doctor Davison led his group on its unique...
...slap administered by Chicago voters, to their blatantly anti-British Mayor, William Hale Thompson (see p. 11). Since Mayor Thompson invented and began the game of calling the nose of George V a snoot, the dignified and conservative London Morning Post permitted itself to gloat, last week: "Evidently the self-respect of Chicago has tired of being made a byword and laughingstock by its present Mayor. It has told him in effect that it is his own snoot rather than King George's that needs to be kept out of the city. But though notice has been served...
Significance. Thus in a series of excessively droning monologues Lowell Schmaltz gives himself away to inconceivably long-suffering audiences as a self-satisfied ass thriving in a smug over-convenient America, 1928 model. Lively audiences yawn, groan, escape him, but posterity, trapped by the author's undeniable virtuosity in the spoken word, will listen and believe that the mechanistic ass was typical of the age. And posterity may not detect this flaw: "typical" American butter-and-eggers idolized in Lindbergh all the heroism which their own ready-to-wear existence lacked, and would always prefer a Lindbergh...
...Harvard, or has sat in on the lectures dealing with present-day American architecture, will rejoice that Professor Edgell has found time to set forth, more fully and in permanent form, his knowledge and opinions on this subject. With America at present going through an era of extreme self-consciousness, with the country never before so financially able to enter the field of art, and with a problem almost unique to be solved in its building, no book could be of more timely interest...