Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again I cannot refrain from enlightening Louisville Lou that, aside from the eminence of the owners of the "funny pictures" which it had been his "thought to discontinue looking at," they are faces generally acknowledged to be extremely strong and handsome...
Persons who heard of it thought that such "reasonableness" shed yet more light on the Brand type of politician, if more were needed. But aside from branding Mr. Brand and his kind, the episode seemed to have a larger significance not because of its connection with the Presidential campaign, which is not properly a House affair, but because of the murk it dispelled from the whole atmosphere of Congressional farm relief. Burton v. Brand was declared one of the most significant debates this session...
There at the State Theatre they saw a rollicking performance of Peer Gynt (1867), the play which takes its name from a hero who typifies the convivial weaknesses which Ibsen thought that he detected in many of his countrymen...
...Buzzard. John Collier was dead. Of that there could be no doubt whatever. But the members of the cast of Broadway's newest murder play thought that if they pretended John Collier was still alive, his murderer would reappear to investigate. So they pretended, as hard as and as long as they could. Now and again, some one of them would claim to be the culprit until at last the true culprit admitted her identity. Then the audience, which had begun to imagine that it would have to wait for a death bed confession, trooped wearily away. There...
...laboratory has never been denied place as the workshop of reality, but the tutorial system has seemed to carry a flavor of books, hearth fire and mellow phrasing that has little in common with laboratory coats, Bunsen burners and quantitative analysis. The sciences had been thought of as a multitude of parts, subdivided and resubdivided in an arrangement with so few cross relationships that the tutorial system, which aims to give the gazing student a view of the whole field, had little application here. Teaching the young idea geology, for instance, has been a matter of cumulation of courses like...