Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John R. Tunis does not often enjoy the experience of being either accurate or penetrating, but in an article on honorary degrees in the June issue in an article on honorary degrees in the June issue of "Harpers" he presents a case which should give thought to this university and all other who award these annual kudos...
...TIME, March 1), Mr. Morgan contended that the legislation: 1) proposed retaliatory measures against honest regulatory systems in 33 States which in fact were not discriminatory; 2) would lead to anti-anti-discriminatory laws, bringing about a set of State tariff barriers the like of which had not been thought of since Colonial days...
...dignified shake of the head into his divine majesty, convinced that if serious difficulties arose his inner voice would at once show him the right way." And to those who think Germans are happy, Author Feuchtwanger has this to say: "A stranger visiting Samosata or Edessa would never have thought that the country was in a state of unrest. He would have had the impression that the people were quite satisfied with Nero's rule and quite happy under...
...Senator Varro, once of Rome, had thought it best to exile himself in Syria after the death of his friend and protector, the Emperor Nero. Varro had grown to like and understand the East; thanks to his money and his sympathetic shrewdness he had become one of the most potent men in Syria. Then fate sent to Antioch, as Roman Governor, Varro's old acquaintance and antipathy, Cejonius. Because Cejonius, a cut-&-dried type of administrator, did Varro down on the little matter of a tax bill, Varro privately swore vengeance. He soon found a way to get even...
...secret, withdrew from Cejonius' jurisdiction and watched the Roman frontier go up in flames. A few hints to Protege Terence had been enough to set him practicing Nero's every remembered gesture. Soon he was fit to be seen by everybody but his wife, who thought he had gone crazy. For a while everything went so well that Varro began to think his dangerous jest might even turn into safe reality...