Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every literate U. S. inhabitant. Who has not seen the Lindbergh photographs? Who, asked to whom the nicknames "Slim," "Lucky," apply, would hesitate for an answer? To be sure, the stories written about Colonel Lindbergh were often phrased in bombastic and maudlin journalese. Mrs. Lindbergh, dignified, poised, was the theme of countless prose variations of Mother Machree. Had Colonel Lindbergh possessed a wife or sweetheart, one hesitates to think what would have been written about her. What Colonel Lindbergh did and said at his various receptions was fogged in a cloud of superlatives and oratory. Mediocre speeches, inane songs...
Such was the poet's theme...
...Mann's chief characteristic stands in his own path. He has carried local colour to its reductio ad absurdam. The significance of the theme is lost in pages and pages of interesting but unnecessary detail. Herr Mann is probably assured of literary immortality. But it is sad that he should survive, not as a great mind, not as a great artist, but as a source-book for future historians...
...David Lloyd George delivered on this general theme the greatest speech which he has made this year. His mane of white hair bristled, and he spoke with a fire that carried conviction...
...join in any Eastern "Big Ten" which might be formed are obviously not those of "a sort of superficial snobbery" as the Daily states. To accept such a presumption is to ignore entirely the whole shift in undergraduate attitude toward football and to base futile arguments on a threadbare theme. The Eastern Conference idea is acceptable and conceivable only in the degree in which it supports the recent rationalization of the sport. Certainly the Present regime of the western body is not toward that end. Or, if it is, its altruism is well concealed behind its elephantine proportions...