Word: twigs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twitching impatiently at a laurel twig, the Premier suffered himself to be congratulated for a few moments. Then the twig snapped; Il Ditce's eyes became luminous in their pale sockets. Striding to the rostrum amid ringing cheers, Mussolini performed the Fascist salute, extending his right arm forward and upward in the gesture of the Caesars...
...education forms 'the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined...
...Significance. The tree of life has roots as well as branches. Shelley shinnied to the topmost twig, swaying above sanity with piercing cries of joy. Savaron, cursing brilliantly, burrowed down through the loams of illusion to the last dark rootlet of which words can tell. Psychologically, the book is a faultless exposition of the destructive approach to super-manhood. It would be restless reading for maiden aunts, a dangerous typhoon for souls without some windward anchor of faith or stupidity...
...upon the teachers themselves. So long as there is no willingness to improve these conditions, teaching will continue to be of a poor quality. As for the propagandists--for the merely thoughtless, a careful reading of Elyot and Ascham; for the purely selfish--discharge. An education which bends the twig to its own will-be it wholesome or not--can only result in a forest of misshapen trunks...
...Roosevelt of Yale and Mr. Wilson had been a graduate of Harvard and Mr. Roosevelt of Yale, and Mr. Taft of Princeton, we might have seen, or at least seemed to see, the relation between a President's adult characteristics and his scholastic training, for as the twig is bent so is the tree inclined. Boston Herald