Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...richest, the ripest, the most inspiring and the fruitiest group of all, was the group of serious students who were social about it." That was the answer of a University of Pennsylvania 1929 graduate-Samuel Lipshutz...
...wicked group- an off-colour mixture of boys from all races and all families, who sat in the rear of the rooms and cried their vices to each other . . . were still young enough to regard a prostitute as an adventure. . . . The third group was the group of serious students who were not social about it . . . went in for higher mathematics, and for chess, and for physics." Mr. Lipshutz made this analysis because he is a reader of Henry Louis ("Hatrack") Mencken's American Mercury and had read therein of two $500 prizes to be awarded for the best analysis...
...richest of U. S. tycoons, Friction-Fighter Timken, 61, has been called "The Millionaire Nobody Knows." Living in Canton, Ohio, where his plant is located, he finds recreation in horses, fishing, speed boats, aviation. Indoors, he is serious at bridge. Autocratic in his philosophy of business, he feels one man must be unalterably in control. Yet he believes with Henry Ford that good work can come only from good wages, has never had a strike...
Appendicitis is not a casual matter for a man of 69. Before the attack had reached its height or the doctor made his diagnosis Paderewski must have known what it was. His case was serious, yet the amazing sequence of that evening was not the hurried drive down the dark road through the park and on to Lausanne, not the operation, or his quick recovery, but his own refusal to change his plans. He was confident that he would be out of it safely in a short time, and in a shorter time than anyone dared hope...
This sentiment seldom cloys because Ernest Truex gives the most serious, tender performance of his career and Marda Vanne as the wife never forgets restraint. Certain episodes exhibit flagrancies of aste. But when the daughter (Maisie Darrel) confesses her troubles to a stalwart boy who wants her love (Robert Douglas), the scene trembles with tragedy and gallantry. And a parody of court procedure is introduced which provides peerless comic relief...