Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fell in love with Millicent Harden whom Franklin Mills himself was thinking of marrying?and how at the last, when the house of Mills' self-absorbed pride had fallen to pieces about him, Bruce was able to share with his father the hope of happiness?forms the theme of this solid and interesting novel which reflects American life of the day without preachiness or distortion...
...current play he has the part of an Irish ditchdigger who cures by homemade homilies paralysis in a wealthy banker. This artless theme will undoubtedly stir the heart strings and purse strings of thousands. To the faintly intelligent it will be incredibly banal. One almost expects Mr. Hodge to rush from the stage after the final curtain, shake each individual visitor by the hand and kiss good-bye the little girls in pigtails...
...last decade has given to the Western World, said Miss Comstock, a bitter revelation of the cloudiness, incompetence and ineptitude of the human mind. The theme of her address was that folk are not as bad as they are stupid. Her solution? More education...
...same--a tone that is heard but too seldom in these days. The admonition of Sidney to "look in they heart"; Carlyle's "labor"; Emerson's "instincts"; the desire of Arnold for "true and fresh ideas"; all these find a brave echo here. Even to so materialistic a theme as "Criticism in American-Periodicals", can such principles be applied-the principles of clear-sighted and unshaken adherence to faith and judgement. Nor are these principles held in the light of a sort of rule-of-thumb panacea, to be applied indiscriminately and with the joy of recent discovery; but rather...
...Premier Lloyd George continued his triumphal American tour amid indescribable enthusiasm. At Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Niagara Falls, Winnipeg, he made speeches praising the Canadians for the great part they played in the War. But the predominant theme in his speeches was that of the brewing war in Europe, and he more than once emphasized the necessity of fighting that menace...