Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutorial conferences, there is manifestly something stultifying in our former methods of instruction. The faults that will be shown by experience to come through the use of the reading period will quite possibly be those of a too elaborate effort on the part of instructors to make sure that the student is kept busy. The reading assignments are apt to be made merely an extension of course control, and to be made too heavy to permit the honest performance of the required task. Two weeks and a half might profitably be spent in milling over the courses, in pulling them...
...read your new Fashion Department with, I will confess a critical but, I am sure, unmercenary eye. I wish now to express my approval qualified by one or two suggestions. In the first place, I am afraid that you do not always seize upon the most significant developments. But this defect will probably be corrected as you acquire familiarity with your subject. Then I have a more important suggestion: why do you not call your department PROGRESS, rather than FASHION? The latter is an unpleasant word carrying a hint of inconsequence, whim, frivolousness and lack of permanence. Should...
...found to be ensconced in the Vice President's offices at Washington while Congress was McNary-Hauging. For this Mr. Dawes was roundly scored by Chicago business friends. The explanation was that Mr. Dawes, smart politician, traded his support of the McNary-Haugen bill-which he felt sure President Coolidge would veto-for reciprocal Senate support of the McFadden Branch-Banking bill, which became...
...sure that, if persisted in, this warning bangs, bolts and bars the door against any hope of fur ther agreement with the United States on naval armament." It was this attitude, said Lord Cecil, that prevented an agreement when one had "very nearly" been reached. Continued...
...improvised Balkan kingdoms set up on our stages for ever so long. Usually they deal with morganatic marriages, often with a princeling in love with a U. S. maiden rich enough to make it a J. P. Morganatic marriage. But not this time. There is a girl, to be sure. She is practically seduced, to start the plot. And by the prince, too, who is promptly murdered. The rest of the play is a detective story with Lionel Atwill as the detective in gold lace. Mr. Atwill strutted a good deal...