Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British male fashions as distinguished from French feminine modes were subjected to ponderous analysis, last week, by Sir Edwin Forsyth Stockton, potent British textile merchant. His most vital point: "The recent general turning up of trousers at the bottom has opened up a very important branch of trade, since it has created a demand for the fancy sock. The modern man of taste wants his socks exposed to view and to harmonize with his trousers and the general scheme of his dress...
...Majesty's Government concluded, last week, with the Russian Soviet Government, a most satisfactory treaty continuing the rights under which Japanese go every year to fish in Siberian waters. Though this vital document emerged through routine channels, its negotiation was rumored to have been greatly furthered, at Moscow, by the "unofficial" visit of that great statesman Viscount Shimpei Goto...
...representative men whether great artists or not. A knowledge of this kind is surely desirable. The general examinations deserve commendation for their attempt to coordinate scattered courses and to clarify for each student the sequence of literary events; but I believe that they have obscured other and more vital aspects of the study of English literature, that their emphasis has tended to place much too high a premium on literary history...
...books foisted annually on the public. The Nation agrees but points out that even at Yale faculty members was prolix with superlatives and too often lose touch with the active world of letters. Time was, recalls the magazine, when a professor of English at New Haven "snubbed the most vital living authors in order to sing in extravagant terms the praises of an innocuous and now almost forgotten novelist, Henry Sydner Harrison". And the years which have passed since the author of "Queed" was popular have brought equally significant and disappointing parallels...
...vital problem which the taxpayers of Massachusetts might well face frankly, but which they will probably prefer to dodge, is set forth effectively by Edith Hamilton MacFadden of Cambridge in her new book, "The Next Question." The subject with which she deals is tax-exemption, which is, of course, just another form of taxation for those whose property is not exempt. She points out that tax-exempt property is rapidly increasing. Its total in Massachusetts up to and including 1925 is $1,188,-768,668, and it is increasing at the rate of $60,000,000 a year. The list...