Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs : I mention the fact in all humility because my given name is "Charles" and I am not a great man; but have you noticed how many very great Americans bear this name? The ten "biggest Charles" are worthy, I am sure, to stand beside the "ten biggest" Americans suggested by Mr. Pope (TIME...
...Negro is so detestable as to be undeserving of the common title Mr., Mrs. or Miss, the courtesy accorded all other races, I wonder if W. C. Poynter and other Southern gentlemen of his ilk can without a blush of shame, stand in the presence of their wives and daughters and explain to the world just why, in so far as physical appearance is concerned, the color line is so rapidly vanishing. Surely even Poynter himself must know that if the stranger in certain sections of the South relies solely on color he is decidedly unable in many instances...
...church will stand at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street.* Its tower will be 375 feet high. It will cost $4,000,000. Charles Collens and Henry Pelton are the architects. The inside will be Romanesque, the outside Gothic. Elevators will run up through 20 stories of women's rooms, sewing-rooms, lecture-rooms, schoolrooms, offices in the tower; stairs will go down to robing-rooms, Sunday school rooms, choir-rooms, locker-rooms, kitchens in the basement. There will be bolwing alleys and a basketball court - details which and do not reflect Dr. Fosdick, but are a counterpart...
...COULD STAND UP-Ford Madox Ford-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Author Ford's three-volume metaphor for what the War did to the presumable core of England is herewith completed. There are deep scars, wrought by much cleaving to duty. The scene is littered with social and personal wreckage. But the core survives...
This final book of the trilogy shows the triumph of the Single Command, the end of the War. Tietjens is in it to the finish, in very real and dismal front trenches where a man cannot stand up. When it is over he stands up, physically and spiritually. He foregoes revenge upon unjust superior officers, lays aside the battered taboos of the civilization he has helped preserve, returns to London, poverty and Valentine...