Word: tools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when much is made of service, rotary wheels, and the doctrine of non sibi. But the individual has a duty to himself of making life worth living which he seldm falls to observe. The average student does not seek a liberal education with the primary purpose of being a tool of mankind. The ability to reason is the unique human attribute, and according to Aristotle happiness is relative to the exercise of this function. Certainly the educated and cultured man, whether rightly or not, feels that his life is preferable to that of the most comfortable and opulent moron...
...equal Stokowski but he proved, by the thorough excellence of his performance, that the Philadelphia Orchestra was more than a tool for the musical genius of one man. In a hodge-podge of Handel, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Saint-Saens, the first was the best. Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...
...were thoroughly organized, for he early diffused his energies into metal making, coal mining and gas producing, he stood for parliament and won his seat. For most English gentlemen, politics are a duty. For Sir Alfred (he was created baronet in 1910), politics have been a duty and a tool. They gave influence to his affluence. He was one of Lloyd George's Liberals; became First Commissioner of Works, then Minister of Health in Lloyd George's War cabinet. Later he was to bolt the Liberal Party, declare himself a Conservative and fret Lloyd George into sneering that...
Toledo Machine & Tool...
...attache's business to handle the wives. Such, at least, is the idea that forms this comedy which probably would seem all right in French, though it was originally written in German (by Rudolph Lothar and Fritz Gottwald), but sounds too broad in English. The tool of France is in this instance played by that notable actor of elegant gentlemen, Basil Rathbone. In an international crisis, he undermines the wife (Mary Nash) of the Spanish minister of war, who, by ardent persuasion, is coaxed into donning red pajamas during the second act. Everybody knows what that means. The treaty...