Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small university. He has been a prominent and fair-minded exponent of Christian liberalism, and he is one of the very best speakers of our day. Whether he addresses college graduates or businessmen his hearers are stirred by the beauty of his words and the nobility of his thought...
...wretched Recea switchman, who should have sidetracked the local-express to let the Orient pass, promptly took to the woods. So did the rest of the Recea station crew, after locking up their station. Seemingly they thought that when the hand of the Rumanian Justice fell it would be merciless, perhaps indiscriminate...
Gods of the Lightning. When Sacco and Vanzetti were executed for the murder of a paymaster, there were many people who thought they were unjustly punished. "Sacco and Vanzetti were martyrs." said these people, "and they will not be forgotten." Thereafter, little was heard concerning Sacco and Vanzetti; it appeared that one of the most exciting episodes of U. S. jurisprudence was not even to arouse the enthusiasm of artists capable of crying in a prosperous wilderness. Then, last week. Maxwell Anderson (coauthor of What Price Glory) and Harold Hickerson (piano-theory teacher at the New York Conservatory of Musical...
...Theatre this season, the mills ground a girl, Gert, and a boy, Ed. Ed, who earned $20 a week, married Gert. On his wedding night, he discovered that he had a weak heart and would soon die. The idea of suicide came to him like an inspiration or the thought of a journey. Gert did not wish to live any longer either; so Ed closed the window and opened...
...Every year somebody gives more money to a university or college than anyone has thought of giving before. Last week, Candy Manufacturer Henry G. Granger deposited $100 in the People's National Bank of Hoosick Falls. Each year, half the interest will be given to Princeton University, the other half added to the principal. Theoretically, the deposit would mount to billions, trillions; actually, natural and other laws will prevent any such development...