Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lamont's husband is a partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., perhaps the most eminent. The Christian Century survey took up 27 pages of solid type and tended to be sympathetic with the strikers...
...Many of these I found and still cherish, that is why my spirit burns to see the old Waldorf chairs no longer in their wonted place. For many years the Waldorf was to be seen crowded nightly, now what? An occasional scattered group, stragglers, never the old solid masses that indicated the comfort and conviviality to be found there when the side arm chairs invited sprawling ease and lured by comfort the student from his studies...
...tremendous task well tried, betrays his inexperience chiefly by distrusting his ability to write with care as well as power. All these shortcomings notwithstanding, U. S. fiction has a new dynasty: the Pardways. Author Cohen is a Mosaic young man, cast on a large frame, fleshy but solid, slow-spoken, positive. He stayed at the University of Chicago only a few weeks, "because I saw it was not the place for me. I had to learn things for myself- feel 'em out." He did some news- gathering, but small jobs, quite simply, did not appeal to him. He sold...
Observation and admiration have not been lacking. Symphony Hall has welcomed Oxford and Cambridge debaters in regular annual sequence. Audiences have listened in amused complaisance, marveling at the wit and sparkle of the English speakers, and then staunchly voted for the solid legal points of our opposition. It is not patriotism, it is rather a deep-seated distrust of what is clever...
Cliches, bromides! Of course the obvious, the usual, the true are all that Yet a solid South votes Democratic, remembering days when "The Birth of a Nation" was in the cradle of the deep beyond, and the negro question remains as cryptic, unsounded as the riddles of the sages. A farm group in the west knock in vain at the doors of public intelligence to find they beat as against wind. The great issues lie on the shelves, gathering dust, while politicians parade pretty toys for the inveterate voters. They know that the intellectuals will be off deciding whether...