Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with unemployment. A unique mayor last week was Ross D. Rogers of Amarillo, Tex., home of cows, dust storms and helium. Said Representative Ludlow, Indiana Democrat: "I have been in your city on several occasions, Mr. Mayor, and it strikes me that there wouldn't have been any serious trouble if there had been...
...distinguished writer has been living abroad for thirty years and in diffident about; criticizing his native land after so brief a re-acquaintance. But he has just come from a two weeks stay in Washington where he gave serious attention to the workings of the government, and he found most of America's his could be blamed on Money...
Since the site of the orations was shifted from Sanders Theatre to the Stadium in 1905, they have lost whatever serious tone they had retained up to that time. In 1910 humorist Frank Sullivan was the Ivy Orator, and was followed two years later by Robert Benchley...
...finest stables of race horses in the world, had won two Derbies before (with Gallant Fox in 1930 and Omaha in 1935) and had won Great Britain's coveted Ascot Gold Cup last year with Flares, a son of Gallant Fox. But Turfman Woodward, a serious student of blood lines, took special pride in his long-legged Johnstown, whom railbirds nicknamed "Big John." It was his idea to breed his fleet-footed Jamestown with La France, a beautiful little mare who, because of a broken hip, never could race. Johnstown was their foal and Owner Woodward had followed...
From Homer on, hardly a serious poet has been without a guardian conscience which he called his Muse. To the Greek poets, the Muses were goddesses who led a life apart from the bullheaded and goatish gods but were, like them, bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to hatch out a more personal and better world, the Muse turned from goddess to angel-like Dante's Beatrice, who spoke to him from heaven. But with the Renaissance, poets found their angels nearer home and less angelic: in Elizabethan times, on the streets and in the Court...