Word: worldness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Currently published is a book called The Psychology of Happiness by Professor Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia University.* Therein it is stated that Woodrow Wilson had, from childhood, "a constitutional infirmity which he struggled to hide and did hide with such cunning the world never suspected it." This was "the first-and perhaps most poisonous-virus of his unhappiness...
...headaches.'. . . I never knew him to suffer from 'ghastly dyspepsia' or any other kind. I have known him to be bored when reading stuff like Professor Pitkin's. . . . What heartburns he suffered were for humanity and because of the attempts to thwart his ideal of world peace. . . . It is true that he had bad eyesight, but he could still envisage the horrors of war, the sufferings of humanity and the way to free the world of them...
...little more than a decade he has been able to almost wipe out a world wide anti German feeling which had been fanned to a white heat by completely false government statements issued under the stress of war and build up in its place a real respect for the honesty and integrity of his nation. Refusing to accept his doctors orders and take a rest, he worked on for the good of Germany under the strain of internal difficulties knowing that his days were numbered. No greater services could any man perform for his country and for the rest...
Lately Mr. Ames had given up the production of plays to turn his attention to Gilbert and Sullivan revivals. The noteworthy staging of these early musical comedies has given him a place among the leading producers of the world...
Tomorrow at 8 o'clock, in Room 110, Pierce Hall the Harvard Engineering Society will meet in the first of a series of gatherings held during the year, at which members have the opportunity of hearing and of meeting men prominent in the engineering world, and of meeting socially their professors and fellow students...