Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate: "Mr. Bayard could not come because he is getting ready to go out of town to attend a funeral tomorrow. . . . Mr. Caraway's telephone, it is said, has been disconnected. . . . Mr. Keyes is in bed, but says he will think it over. I think he was serious about that. . . . At Mr. McLean's residence we reached some one on the telephone who refused to give him the message. . . . Mr. Gooding is in bed, but says: 'All right, I will come over.' . . . Mr. Stewart gave a jocular reply. I do not know just what...
...century later, on the same day, Shrove Tuesday-a week ago-half a million people crowded into the town to participate in Mardi Gras (fat Tuesday) with the definite purpose in mind of having a good time. Out of that picturesque escapade a hundred years ago has emerged the serious business of celebrating its anniversary. Pink-cheeked Iowans with Happy Hooligan hat complexes are frantically chased through the crowds by corpulent wives arrayed as Madame Gump...
...During that [War] year none but the veriest fool was left destitute; the others were all in the Army or earning good wages in civilian life. . . . In 1919, when industrial stagnation set in, the average brain volume of our social failures rose to 1,520 c.c. That looked serious to us and with great interest we read the prognosis of bankers and captains of industry regarding the future. According to predictions the situation improved in 1920, and our mean brain volume sank once more to near the pre-War level...
...Significance. Foe of machinery, Professor Pirandello never tires of manipulating the intricate machinery of the human mind. Attacking cinema with the full venom of a legitimate playwright, he manipulates his customary close-ups and fadeouts of existence, real and unreal, seeming and serious. A mystic, a believer in man's supernatural endowment, he finds nothing too lowly, dull or grotesque to serve his purpose-a beggars' shelter, a dusty country road, a flyblown tavern. One who speculates on the borders of insanity, he never long departs from concrete dramatization. Shoot is as full of action as a wild...
...There is serious danger in the new plan. It is of no value unless it relieves instructors and throws students on their own resources. Wherever the change is adopted it must be adopted thoroughly. Tutors, especially, and instructors of graduate students will have to resist the temptation to give their men just a little teaching during the reading periods. For the students there will be risks that always go with opportunity and responsibility. Some will be lost who might conceivably be compelled to straggle along. Some will look upon the reading period as a holiday; others will regard...