Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, thirsty longshoremen have voluntarily foregone their beer. To the unfortunate students of literature at Cambridge we extend our sympathy; to them undoubtedly has fallen the unpleasant lot of having Sir Arthur's doctrines forced down their throats. They can reject them and become threadbare hack-writers; or swallow them and attain the airy pinnacles reached by our own Mr. Tumulty...
Harving decided that the evolutionary hypothesis of the late Charles Darwin is moonshine, the Kentuckians appear strangely reluctant to swallow it. It is a sad commentary on transportation conditions that even such a weighty matter as the Darwinian theory should have been sixty years on the road across the Appalachians. The rest of us have our jazz, and our divorce problem, out movies and our bonus bills, but "The Origin of Species" is as completely vanished from the public mind as are last year's "Follies". The mental agony which rocked the world half a century ago now shakes Kentucky...
...long time reaching this level, and some of the earlier scenes were--sad to say--badly over-played. In contrast to the former productions, the bit where the two travelers drain the pot of ale dry in spite of the efforts of their supposed host to get a swallow himself, was rendered purely for its farce values, and the very rich comedy in it wholly neglected. Above all, the incident where "Diggory" delivers a letter stuck in a broom by way of a salver is palpably out of place. Also the numerous soliloquies, despite their difficulty, might have been given...
...chaff be separated from the wheat. However, I think that most of the members of the Liberal League will agree that the National Security League misunderstands our purpose. The Security League seems to be operating under the ridiculous idea that college students are a bunch of infants who "swallow" everything they are told without the slightest thought on their part, while, of course nothing could be further from the truth. When the National Security League becomes so hard pressed for arguments for its cause that it becomes necessary for it to read into one word uttered by one speaker...
...Emerson's "Religion--Past, Present, and Future." After a brief, dizzy excursion into space we wake up in bed to find only one limb out of a possible four functioning properly. Then Mr. Emerson comes along and prescribes a rather ambitious, eloquent, inaccurate order of Religion. We refuse to swallow...