Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...books; and the child persisting later finds his professor inhuman. This notion is the school-boy's heritage and is so strong that when an attempt is made to popularize a course, when the professor tries to escape the mould the student fastens upon him, he is criticized as sugar-coating a pill which is preferred bitter, as feebly trying to curry the student's favor...
...conventional morality. Then by dextrous sleight of hand the reform play became a potential tragedy, the theme of which was, "Mind your own business"; the calomel was changed for quinine. And at the last, of course, was dragged in the inevitable happy ending, for the sake of the sugar. A surprise play it was, in other words, with the plausible cleverly substituted for the logical at each turning point. A psychological study it was, too, of not inconsiderable power...
...with much pleasure that I noticed in your editorial of last Saturday entitled Oh, Sugar!" the laudable success achieved by the "descendants of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona'" in abolishing seventy-five percent of the profanity in their city. I fully agree with your statements that "such heroics should not pass unnoticed", and that this matter concerning profanity is something for "all sober-minded Harvard 'men" to think about. However, it was too bad that you should introduce such child's play in your last remarks; and, above all, that you had to bring in that much-strained joke...
...majority of men in College Silver Bay means little but a teaspoonful of religious moralizing, sugar-coated with athletics and recreational possibilities of the most pleasing sort. To a few it is a source of great inspiration and really valuable spiritual help, "worth more than a whole year in college...
...ways, it would have been better if it had been, for Mr. Quick could have produced an exceedingly interesting volume by holding to the thread of history of contrast. It is a story of middle aged lion between a very young girls, who more firmly. As it is, by sugar coating schoolbook facts with the conventional love trash, he introduces an element which is both out of place and annoying. The heroine may be the cause of all the difficulty, for she is the worst-drawn character in the book; imported as she is from the stockroom of the modern...