Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been with scholastic dispute and literary name-calling, the private citizen was always secure in being able to turn to something wholesome like politics. But the new intelligence has all the while been eating into this happy vale of candidness, as the edge of a milltown eats into the virgin forest. Singularly untouched hitherto, and the more pathetic in downfall for that reason is the situation of Mayor Walker of New York...
That the doctor's degree, too, is often sought by unwilling men, excellent as teachers but incompetent as scholars; that the weary fields of knowledge are re-ploughed for virgin trivialities to satisfy the requirements of colleges for their professors, is an unfortunate condition irremediable in light of the present conception of scholastic values. The important point in President Lowell's discussion of the master's degree is his acknowledgement of the capabilities of the present graduate matured by divisional examinations and the guidance of tutors. The student of distinction in realizing that he is by rights a master...
Died. Algernon Sidney Crapsey, 80, author (The Last of the Heretics, an autobiography), lecturer, onetime Episcopalian clergyman, convicted of heresy in 1906 for denial of the doctrine of the virgin birth and the divinity of Jesus; in Rochester...
...story is the usual merry epic of a Fairbanks production. It begins with the miracle of the pool by which a shepherdess is made whole by looking at a vision of the Virgin Mary, whom, if the shepherdess had known her Hollywood, she would have recognized as Mary Pickford, America's sweetheart. A city grows up around the shrine of the pool. Hearing of the wealth which grateful recipients of its healing power have laid at the feet of the shepherdess (now the priestess of the shrine), El Gaucho rides toward it through imaginary Andes, as steep and beautiful...
...Baby's Clothes:" This is the first time that I can recall where you put the only real fact of an article in its footnote: " "In Catholic countries blue (the Virgin's color) is used for girls and pink for boys." That is new news to me and rationalizes a "fashion." I appre ciate also your telling me the important department stores of eight great cities. Otherwise this article is twiddle-twoddle...