Word: utilitarian
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Illinois. An Unemployment relief fund of $100,000 per month-was arranged by Samuel Insull, public utilitarian, by collecting one day's pay per month from all the workers in his $3,000,000,000 industry. Said Tycoon Insull: "The responses will be practically universal. Girls and boys, men and women will all come in alike...
...Chorus. Sophisticated Theophile Gautier once said that the only thing one could not exhibit on the stage was a pot de chambre. The chief distinction of Sisters of the Chorus, another theatrical attempt to romanticize the lives of thugs and their lady friends, is that just such a utilitarian object is within full view of about one-half of the audience, the play's humor springing largely from the fact that a bathroom opens on the principal scene. There is a good deal of tedious talk about the nefarious ethics and business conduct indigenous to "Broadway...
...latest developments, so it was with considerable surprise, and just a tinge of regret, that the Vagabond observed the new building operations on the Yard side of Massachusetts avenue. With the increasing demands of more production and that sort of thing. It is probably quite natural for the utilitarian motives to be predominant in the minds of those who plan the destinies of modern institutions. Nevertheless, that fast disappearing openness that made the Yard a relief from the jumbled crowdedness of Cambridge will always be a pleasant memory to the "old timers." And in addition to this regret, the Vagabond...
...More utilitarian, no less impressive, but at present more nebulous, was a project announced last week by a New York Board of Trade committee chairmanned by William T. Donnelly, consulting engineer. Chairman Donnelly's proposal not only envisions Manhattan as the gateway to the nation, but, richer in concept than previous plans, seeks to symbolize the U. S. as a great interfusion of races, nations, peoples, whose civilization has been and is based on commerce. His plan proposes as an appropriate* national monument a great vaulted hall, largest in the world, with an esplanade on the Battery water...
Instantly the U. S. press burst forth in angry protest. Who was Samuel Insull to "censor" the speech of an Ambassador of the nation? How dared a public utilitarian already viewed askance for dabbling deeply in national politics (large sums towards the nomination of Senator-reject Smith of Illinois in 1926-TIME, July 26, 1926 et seq.), now project himself internationally...