Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These men come to Harvard after having spent some time in their English universities, in many cases after receiving a degree there, and carry on research work here. Their status is slightly different from that of most visiting scholars in that they are afforded more freedom in choice of work than are the bulk of graduate students...
...Freedom from these suspicions would have been enjoyed by almost any Labor leader. But Mr. MacDonald has personal qualities of his own which attract Americans more, perhaps, than they do Englishmen. His capacity for expressing religious and idealistic sentiment in public speeches is more popular and more accepted in America than in England...
Borne off to jail, straight-jacketed, he told the wardens he was a millionaire, would pay them vast sums for his freedom...
...gentility and domestic tyranny. George became a painter, and, in revolt against his parents' ideas, contracted a free and childless union with Elizabeth. Later, when she mistakenly believed herself pregnant, he married her. They agreed that each should be perfectly free to have other affairs, and Elizabeth enjoyed her freedom, until she found that George was enjoying himself with her friend Fanny. Then George went to War, quixotically enlisting as a private. When he returned on leave, exhausted with hardship and tension, he could no longer take his share in the smart, arty conversations of his set, and found both...
...Significance. Author Gordon's story is not typical, as would be the story of a black Southerner consciously striving Northward toward freedom. As a Westerner, blind at first to the burden of his own color, Author Gordon dreamed of the East where he would be a brown, pagan tycoon. He won the East and more as songster, not tycoon. Still pagan, he says: "There are only two things I worship in life, a dollar bill and a pretty girl...