Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Bryce, whose dismal prophesies concerning the abilities of American public men have long been accepted with humility, may yet be refuted. The upper hierarchy of officials and representatives begins to shine with intellectual distinction of a sort a condition which would hardly have been tolerated by the electorate of Jackson's time. Strange as this state may be to those who feel that the government must reflect the stupidity as well as the wishes of the masses, it would be more alarming if the extraordinary diffusion of higher education among the prosperous classes in America were not soon reflected...
...sort-of play which is suited to the talents of Manager Giles' company. Although Avery Hopwood wrote a weak third act for his comedy, the two acts preceding it are more than sufficiently funny to make the whole a fine evening's entertainment...
Senator Curtis of Kansas, Republican whip, was well liked by the regulars. In his capacity as a sort of assistant floor leader under Lodge he has been popular...
...nevertheless for years been as well known as any contemporary artist on the Continent. Oddly enough, his work has never before reached the U.S. Its arrival has caused no little talk, for Mestrovic is an individualist of power. His themes are highly dramatic?heroic figures, gaining in a sort of grim majesty what they lose in intimacy and, occasionally, in essential nobility. Mestrovic's life is interesting in connection with his art. Born of Croatian parents?farming peasants? as a boy he wandered the fields, tending sheep, carving in wood. The long hours alone with his fleecy flock did much...
...matter of fact, I saw no unpleasant attitude of any sort expressed by any of the spectators that jammed the Stadium at Colombes on the afternoon, for example, when the American 400 yard relay team smashed a world record once, and then topped its own record a short time later; nor did I see, during the whole time I was in Paris, any sign of hostility or even of impatience (except, of course for the taxi bandits and their tips...