Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glib and shallow economics which were presented as the opinion of Henry Ford "and Samuel Crowther" are as utterly discredited as a system could well be. As an authority on economic problems he is not so much atacked as utterly forgotten. In indicating a new biographical trend, Mr. Leonard's book is interesting, but the attek is made on an army defeated, on a capitalist no worse than the generality of capitalists and by virtue of his very naivete a good deal better than most of them...
...Dean's analysis of conditions is supported by incontestable evidence but his proposed cure is open to objection. The plan suggested would entail a curriculum composed entirely of survey courses. Experience with such courses has shown that they are usually shallow and uninspiring. Whether or not men should know one field thoroughly or several sketchily may be a debateable point, but there is no doubt as to how students react to this question. The mere character of the survey course, even under the best management, would be enough to dissuade earnest students from constituting their four year curriculum entirely...
...Paramount). Through tedious scenes of polo, parties and Palm Beach, this picture (from Rupert Hughes's novel) indicts the shallow rich. Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard), seeking the 100% husband, has divorced one 60 per-center, is engaged to Bill Hanaway (Ricardo Cortez), a "sportsman," quoted about 70. Seeing Bill with Sue (Juliette Compton) in his arms, Penelope marks him down 30 points and elopes with a Viennese doctor who runs a sanitorium for wayward girls. Bill follows, wins her, conveniently dies from heart disease attributable to alcoholism, athletic and sexual excesses; and Penelope, proving her worth by nursing...
...inclined to take at a fast clip more than once. The Manchester Guardian recalled a precedent of the plan, a bill introduced into the House of Lords by Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, requiring the local authorities of every English village to dig a shallow trench across the road at the town limits...
...Freshmen, by one of the editors, Richard S. Childs, should, if they retain any powers of self-criticism, fill them with shame. Mr. Childs has drawn for them a picture of Yale as he sees it, the place where gentlemen are manufactured and scholars are laughed at, a shallow, self-seeking, trivial, insincere playground for young bond salesmen to make contacts in before they take up the serious business of life. This may or may not be a just picture. But that a thoughtful young man, as Mr. Childs reveals himself to be, one who is already well...