Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jacket of this book* says it is "a candid and impartial account of the real facts of the Near East situation of today." The content of the book shows it to be one of the most glaring of all partisan books that have ever been printed on the Near East tangle...
...should be less than candid with you, however, if I did not say that in my judgment the strongest argument that has been used in the United States in support of immediate independence of the Philippines is not the argument that it would benefit the Filipinos, but that it would be of advantage to the United States...
Happily, no clouds shadow the relations between our two countries. Such slight causes of misunderstandings as arise are promptly removed and, as is always the case when friends disagree, the necessary explanations incidental to their adjustment make for friendship which is more enduring because the more candid. When two nations cherish similar ideals, growing out of a common regard for disciplined liberty, for truth and love of justice, they seek to work in essential harmony...
...PREFACE TO LIFE-Edwin Justus Mayer-Boni ($2.50). The candid autobiography of a youth whose physical and spiritual adventures touch upon Harlem and Hollywood, "William Blake and Joseph Conrad, manufacturers, magnates, movie-stars, sweat-shop-workers, policemen, poets, editors, reporters. The growth of a mind, the rise of an intelligence, the development of an interesting and hostile point of view. Well written, fertile of ideas, suggesting one of the many possible answers to the query: " What's wrong with civilization in general and American civilization in particular...
...regular" theatres would be housing "Ambush" and "March Hares" Little interested in so serious, sane, unselfish an undertaking are the highbrows by trademark. Encouragement in word, support in deed, must come from that younger public which would take its pleasure in the theatre, but would have that pleasure intelligent, candid, of life as it goes here and now. At the University that public is large, if careless. In every recess it flocks to theatres in New York doing what the Stage Guild would now do in Boston. Once informed and, maybe, a little prodded, it will find like pleasure...