Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Those who ordered me, Count de Polignac, to ze jail have trespass on my honaire. . . . "But here in America, when I am humiliated, I can do nozzing." "Maybe zey zink zis is ze joke and zey get zemselves, what you call it-pooblicity. To me, zo, it is ze serious mattair. Zey have exploited my name, zose dry agents, to put zemselves on ze front page. ... I zink it is all-what you Americans call it? -ze bunk...
...rank with favoritism. Fifty thousand city employes, chiefly firemen and policemen, were threatened with a prolonged suspension of pay. The extravagance of the Thompson administration was directly blamed. The Businessman's Commission, said the Chicago Tribune, was "a confession of moral and intellectual bankruptcy which is far more serious than fiscal bankruptcy...
...Windsor he discovered that an abscess had formed under the wound through which King George's lung had been drained. The abscess broke naturally and was draining successfully-not a serious matter ordinarily, but grave indeed to anyone who had been as sick as King George...
...that Fundamentalists and Modernists had best lay their differences entirely aside and join in repelling "the humanist movement, which makes God simply a name for the ethical idea evolved by mankind and attempts to draw its moral standards from a study of human behavior. . . . Both sides must recognize a serious menace to vital Christian faith in the humanist movement. The urgent task for Christian scholars is to state the conception of God in Christ convincingly and to help build a Christian Church which will embody his spirit...
...chief virtue of an examination proctor is that he sees without being seen, hears without being heard, and announces the passing nour without causing panic. If he thrusts himself too much in the public eye, he distracts the attention of those occupied with more serious affairs; if he retires too completely behind a pillar he tails to gather the information necessary for his theoretical report on "Some irregular methods of tilling blue books." It has been will said that the successful proctor approaches more nearly to the Golden Mean than any other College official...