Word: worde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your advice on a very curious phenomenon. All the states of this country and the provinces of Canada require two tags, one in front and one in the rear, and both exactly alike.* However, three states, Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee, at various time, have seen fit to require the word "front" on the front license, and "rear" on the rear one.† It occurred to me in this connection that these States have passed laws banning the teaching of the theory of organic evolution in state-aided schools. Will you kindly get your staff of psychologists, anthropologists, etc., busy...
...merely eaten "more than we can digest" and are suffering a no more serious consequence than "a nightmare of disillusionment." We have had an "orgy of idealism," an extravagant faith in "a perfectibility to be brought about by law." If as been as if we, too, had believed the word of the serpent that eating of this tree would enable us to distinguish between good and evil and in doing so "be as God." We have been driven from the Eden of our idealism, yet no angel with a flaming sword bars our return. At any rate, Dean Pound...
...Harvard College believe that the one senior has obtained a better education than the other senior. But with the existing inequalities among the departments it is not always true that the senior who is given a degree has obtained a better education (in the broad sense of the word) than the senior from whom a degree is withheld. Thus the system may frequently do a grave injustice to a senior, only because he has chosen the harder path...
...Walter Winchell will conduct a column for a rival gum-chewers' sheetlet-the New York Daily Mirror. Many a Winchell reader does not believe all that he reads. Sometimes the Winchell prophecies are right; sometimes they are wrong. But Winchell worshippers have enlarged their vocabularies, learned many a word they never had heard before. Some Winchell Words are: "dotter"-daughter "moom pitcher"-moving picture "Hahhlim"-Harlem "gel"-girl "sealed"-married "Joosh"-Jewish "tome"-book "Horrors Liveright"-Horace Liveright "hush parlor"-speakeasy...
Father and Son (Columbia). Psychologists and the writers of fairy stories agree that the relationship between children and their stepmothers is apt to be complicated. The word "stepmother" itself implies so familiar and important a dramatic situation that it is hard to understand how even the most garbled reproduction of it could be wholly untrue. Only by ignoring his real material in favor of claptrap borrowed from other pictures has Director Erie Kenton been able to remove all traces of reality from this story which is told in gasps of silence and badly recorded, preposterously written dialog...