Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact the Chinese Revolution of 1926 reminds one of England in 1642, France in 1789, Russia in 1917, any, in short, of Europe's great social or political upheavals. It is a real civil war based on a major issue that transcends for the time being all individual interests. The ultimate question to be decided is whether the Chinese people will continue to allow a handful of scheming politicians and ambitious war-lords to keep them in a state of civil bondage or whether they will embrace the comprehensive program of reform offered by the Cantonese...
Ring Lardner once wrote a book and called it, intelligently enough, "What Of It?" The same title might aptly be applied to the above journalistic summary of any man's weakness and woman's integrity. As merely frivolous fancies of average minds such analysis of social problems are, if not welcome, at least endurable. Their greatest service is to fill space which would otherwise be either empty or devoted to some less innocuous article. They have no possible value to any except, perhaps, as a starting point for conversation; and it is questionable whether or not they even have...
...Latin he had to report daily on the doings of pious Acneas, with special attention to the accusative as subject of the infinitive in indirect discourse." The boy of today, on the other hand, "For languages elects Spanish or French, for philosophy and economics a combination course known as 'social science', for mathematics some sort of applied geometry, for oratory the dramatic club. With such a snap who couldn't make...
Anyone who has struggled with French subjunctives or Spanish idioms will challenge the veracity of the World's editorial writer who is wittier than he is wise and funnier than he is either. As for dodging philosophy with social science--such manoeuvres have yet to be listed on the Harvard schedule of courses. Philosophy, far from being dodged, is usually what might be called the aid to dodging, since Freshmen have found that there are more ways of removing the mathematical requirements than taking Math A. Applied geometry sounds fascinating one wonders where it is taught. But when the dramatic...
...incarceration, yet attractive enough to win the heart of London's dazzling actress, Nina Grant (Violet Heming). After the wedding, the London equivalent of the tabloid (and there is such a thing), publishes his criminal record. But Nina reveals a great heart, in spite of a petty social circle. The play discovers an appealing sincerity that stands on the brink of bleary sentimentality, leans over the edge to peek, but not to topple, into the lava below...