Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Related to this is the second reason for the study of history. It is a constant exercise in escape from the strait-jacked of a provincial mind. An uneducated person sees the world from the point of view of his own narrow social and economic corner of it. He lacks the knack of forgetting the prejudices of his own trade, his own class, and his own particular country; he is incapable of seeing things whole. The historian who has undertaken to project his imagination into other times, to comprehend other customs and motives, is the more likely to achieve...
...Boxers become butlers as the prize ring invades the social register...
These women are of high calibre, capably accommodate the stranded youngster and firmly reject the leering bummer who wants a ticket "from Manhattan to San Francisco." Him they send to lodging houses or other social service societies. The child, girl or woman, if relatives cannot be reached immediately, is taken to the Guest House of the Manhattan Society on E. 43rd St. If traveling funds are needed, the Manhattan agent wires to relatives or to the Travelers Aid worker in the far city...
...Clinical Examination of the Blood, Serum Diagnosis of Disease, Physical Diagnosis. Case Histories in Medicine, Social Service and the Art of Healing. Differential Diagnosis, What Men Live By, Laymen's Handbook of Medicine, Rewards and Training of a Physician, Social Work. His later books reveal a shrewd estimate of the popular intelligence. While they never decoy the reader into bypaths, still they are in startling contrast to the keen methodology of his earlier, more scholarly tomes...
...Significance of this "novel at success" is literary rather than social. Sam Smith is more compelling, as a man than as a "message." And this is strange, for Author Norris writes with more purpose than distinction. Like William Dean Howells, dullness is dear to him. Yet out of a hazy, conventional reconstruction of the Welsbach-burner, balloon-sleeve, trust-forming era of U. S. life, Sam Smith achieves the form and force of actuality. He joins the great company of the memorably commonplace...