Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...something must be done about it." This statement of our Defender of the Faith is wrong or right according to the meaning of the term religion. If by that revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition, fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates the while about glory, salvation and sin--then we may safely and thankfully say that Harvard is lacking religious ardor...
...Reputable physicians and conservative psychologists are not likely to follow the uncertainties very far. The force that is lacking in their psychological advice and treatment, they will undoubtedly supply in the form of amateur philosophy. In other words, though the proposed reform is a novelty, it is likely to thrive on the saws of the ancients...
...Like a cancer which, in its last stages, seems actually to thrive upon the knife, violations of the Volstead act may almost be said to have thrived...
That no such spirit does thrive here was certainly obvious yesterday when the Watch and Ward Society under the gallant leadership of the Reverend Frank Chase amused some and irritated others who were spending the noon hour in or near the Park Street Church. For no one can name any city the Athens of America where as delightful a demagogue as Mr. Mencken is forbidden freedom...
...nevertheless there is a sound culture in Charlotte. One of the faculty here at Harvard maintains that Ferrisburg has even more. I disagree. If culture is that refined sense of right living which comes with the mellowness and dignity of age, then Charlotte has culture. Verb roots do not thrive on her rock ribbed earth, but something even finer does. For the faces of the people are strong and chiseled. They workship a strong god who made their rocks and yet let them live upon them. Charlotte is a goodly place --though rather cold in the winter...