Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...takes a chill delight when he brings it to bear on an Oil Scandal or a Power Probe. Unbending, unemotional, he has been called unique: "an Irishman without a sense of humor." Not until the past few years has he shown ambition nor, until very recently, even sufficient self-consciousness to trim up his Montaneering mustache of iron grey...
Another excerpt: "It is a simple truth not only that individual freedom and the practice of self government are found to be most prevalent and firmly held in those communities and nations which have a highly developed system of industry and commerce as their foundation, but it is also true that only in such communities and nations can the average citizen attain the degree of individual comfort, education and culture which modern civilization is coming to demand...
Marriage on Approval. A year ago the same play, except for minor details, was offered under the simple title Trial Marriage. As it was then, it is now, a too wordy, too self-serious story .of a wistful but determined chit who refused to marry the man she loved until she had tried living with him, and who then, through the machinations of a reedy villain, goes to jail for a shooting instead of to church for a wedding. Sadder and less idiotic, she gets out in time for the last act. The action of the play is ample...
Thus did Horace Dutton Taft, brother of U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft, evolve into an eminent educator. Last year he took Taft School out of his own pocketbook, gave it to a self-perpetuating board of trustees. He continued to serve as headmaster. His boys have a golf course and a fine football field, but they are more likely to excel in Latin and things musical. They lack adequate housing. So last week began a campaign to raise $2,000,000, more than half of which will be used for new buildings. Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan...
Everyone has seen the self-advertisements of newspapers which read something like this: "Bugle-Clarion led all Creamtown newspapers for February in gain in creampuff advertising." Other Creamtown papers would, meanwhile, be advertising that they led in something else. But prouder still is the paper whose grand total exceeds all others. Last week Editor & Publisher announced total agate lines of advertising for U. S. newspapers in 1927. The ten leaders (all but the last being published seven days per week...