Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aren't we all?" But one can regret that in this great number of graduates from these many American universities and colleges there will be so few who will strive, not as a moth for a star, because the moth never does see the star, but as vigorous, vital human beings toward the high hills of existence which neither a contented faculty or a contented public will ever dream of. In such struggle there is little comfort and little pay--but in June when the future is all before one there should be no valid reason for failing at least...
...necessity of maintaining a specialized group in the antiquated manner. If this course, providing, as has been suggested, that its standards are high, can help toward making such science the accessory of the average citizen and thus militate against the further development of real jingoists it is a vital need. How far that can be true, how far the greater necessity of a youth schooled in national defense can modify the certain corruption of the college incumbent upon real professionalization remains to be seen. At all events, in a period of educational experiment such a trial cannot fall...
...Young Lady of Fashion tripped from between gay board covers this spring, ran up the scale of her unrestrained amours and crescendoed into nine U. S. editions in two months.* Britons capitulated even earlier to the vital, indiscreet Cleone when Lord Darling publicly declared: "Her diary must rank with ' that of Pepys' as a record of its time." Only an occasional reviewer dismissed the work as "that diverting hoax." Last week the "diarist" proclaimed herself. She is Magdalen King-Hall, 19, daughter of His Britannic Majesty's onetime Admiral Commanding on the Coast of Ireland...
More than 1,500 responses to the 2,800 forms sent out were returned. The replies were made optional, although most colleges have adopted the questionnaire to obtain vital information have made the response compulsory...
...never sneers at the audiences which found such plays reasonably satisfactory, provided that vivida vis were present; quite surprisingly he holds a brief for popular taste and decides that though "an English audience must be forcibly amused," it is useless to blame public taste, which would have appreciated a vital drama, had there been any. "The trend of theatrical vitality is, in the main, good," and even the lively arts of force, burlesque and melodrama made important contributions in the evolution towards "appropriateness and nature...