Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terse, piquant style, but have tired of it. Your paragraph titles are frequently frivolous, silly and often, too, misleading. Nor do I approve of the striking adjectives frequently used, not in themselves, but in their conclusion or inferences. I do not accuse the magazine of bigotry towards any one thing or belief...
...fine young man. If you think I write from reading newspaper gossip or seeing John Coolidge's picture in the papers you are wrong. I have seen him several times, I have shaken hands with him once, and I have heard of a "smart" and kind thing he once did. An old lady could not get the window up in a street car, but John Coolidge borrowed an iron rod from the conductor and pried the window open. I have heard this for a fact...
...trite and hackneyed. It is one of the unfortunate consequences of the last decade. A dead and dangerous apathy is the result. If war is ever to be outlawed, if the ringing phrases of President Wilson are to become more than effective recruiting slogans, there can be no such thing as overemphasis of peace...
...these young men who devote themselves so completely to one thing or even one group of things," he continued, "for all their inaccurate perspective and narrowness, are not only typical of youth but also serve a very definite purpose in life. They concentrate all their energies on one point. It is like bringing the waters of a wide stream together in a narrow channel where it will flow faster Vividness, emotion, intensity, these are all products of concentration on a single point. When we survey things from a distance in a more nearly proper perspective, we find it harder...
...thing they all agree on--thin an fat ones, bobs and curls...