Word: trait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more difficult I think to pick out some trait or characteristic of persons about one, and work it up for a cartoon. I get a laugh myself out of everything I draw. It is a more sincere work than a straight narrative cartoon, and, it seems to me, more a creative...
...Milner remarked that men have the ability to take a book and read three or four hours on a stretch, their only movement being to turn the pages. "No woman can do it," was her comment. "It is a purely masculine trait. Another thing, men like to be let alone when they are reading. Not that a 'Kipling' reader could be easily disturbed When I see a man reading 'Kipling' I know from experience that his mind is far from the Farnsworth Room...
...kept and continuous surpluses avoided." Next day, Mr. Meredith turned political interpreter and said that "Progressive Democrats from the West and South" would rally behind William Gibbs McAdoo for President on a Dry platform. Mr. Meredith has always been a better editor and farmers' friend than politician. The trait seems to run in his family...
There is an ancient but tenacious theory that Harvard is indifferent. Freshmen have been its chief exponents when they have not been received with due regard to their self-importance. Upper-classmen have usually, and with justice sneered at this charge or have accepted it as another distinguishing trait. That they have treated it with such levity has probably been due to superficial consideration and not to any profound Machiavellian conceit. Hence it is with pleasure that they welcome the Student Council's latest offspring, the Committee on Relations With Schools...
...which God used, he will find himself in a moral dilemma. Regardless of sect or creed, all followers of Christ must accept His teaching that the lay of life is love, that service to others is the true guiding principle, that self-sacrifice, even to death, is the best trait a man can display...