Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silk was the bride's dress, and of silk were the speculations of many a Cheney.* Handsome, solemn, gray-haired Charles Cheney, President of Cheney Bros., thought with satisfaction of a letter he had received that week: "The committee recommends that the Craftsmanship Medal be awarded to the Cheney Brothers for the beauty of design and texture in their modern machine woven silks." At the top of the letter was a handsome design: a Doric capital and shaft supported by an American eagle with outspread wings. Beneath this was engraved, "The American Institute of Architects...
Many a hearer of the schoolmasters' bitter words was indignant. But some were startled to thought. Was it true that women bribed, corrupted? Are any U. S. educators ever amenable to bribery...
Morris Gest, Russian-born Manhattan theatre-man, made a speech in Milwaukee last week. Excerpts: "A nation might not, officially, do what Henry Ford as a citizen may do. Let him, who thought enough of humanity to send a peace ship to war-torn Europe, now send American experts who can analyze, assimilate and then present to America the needs of a nation ready, eager, anxious to emerge from clouds of darkness and take a rightful place among the nations of the world. . . . Then let the report of the committee be presented to President Hoover, who will know what...
...thought of War and wrote, "The hair of my Mary is dark, and her eyes are shadowed deep, but the despair of the lost generation was darker, and the water in the shell-holes that drowned them was deeper. How may I rest against her heart which beats so gently, when the heart of the world is troubled, when its breast may be beaten again by the iron of the guns of the lightless people? I am weary, but how can I rest having seen the Light...
...could one ever be sure of the genuine? Even expert Sir Joseph Duveen, in a similar case, had proved nothing (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Row upon row of glistening Cadillacs, or Mr. Fisher's new and magnificent Fokker (see p.14), are logical, congenial objects of thought. But two paintings, placed side by side for comparison, may jeopardize the reason...