Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Women's clothes still need to be reformed. That's the last task left you. The pioneers couldn't do it. Today we've got the vote, we've got education, we've got everything else they fought for. It's up to you women of today to study clothes...
...know and wrote them out. A little later, there was read, aloud to us Hume and Smollett's history, as well as Buchanan's, Rollin's and others; likewise Mitford's Greece; while in the evening my father read aloud Milton's Paradise Lost, Cowper's Task . . . and Dryden's works. With an Italian master, we read the works of Tasso and Metastasio. Our education was good inasmuch as we read classical works and not textbooks. What we read then has remained in my mind to this...
...Nazimova has turned from her task of playing fluffy-headed harlots to the impersonation of an old Portuguese. But she isn't such a very old woman. Two handsome men fall fearfully in love with her. But she is chiefly occupied with her wandering boy who involves himself with a flapper and steals a diamond necklace...
...asked of settlement heads must of necessity be perfunctory, and in actual use have not served their purpose. Professional workers have time neither to train volunteers nor to account for maladjustment. In failing to provide for efficient follow-up work, the Committee has left the greater parties of its task unperformed...
...been the aim of those in charge of the University's philanthropies. Unconsciously proving that, though figures do not lie, liars will figure, they have assumed that because four hundred men in September indicate their willingness to do social work, the same four hundred are still faithfully at their task in May which as many a settlement house head knows to his cost is a theory absolutely unsupported by known facts. In insisting on quality at the sacrifice of quantity, the Social Service secretary has done that for which the present generation of professional workers, who have long waged their...