Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government service were such as to compare favorably with that in private enterprise, more men would doubtless be willing to sacrifice three year's salary for higher education and more specialized training, but under existing conditions, no man can be blamed for preferring first a means of livelihood...
...sponsors Mrs. Calvin Coolidge (The Open Door, The Quest, Watch Fires}, Mrs. James Roosevelt. Owen D. Young, Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. many an other bigwig, poetic or unpoetic. Said Mrs. Bullock: "Poets must eat. . . . Our entire purpose is to free genius from the necessity of gaining a livelihood by almost any means except the means it was born...
...Cambridge tends too much to the dilettante, Harvard is not dilettante enough. Apart from that, I think that Cambridge, though harassed about its aims, subconsciously postulates certain functions of a university and satisfactorily fulfills them, whereas Harvard seems undecided as to what its functions should be. In preparing for livelihood rather than life it loads the undergraduate with course work, assignments, and examinations, in the attempt to teach him a variety of subjects. Very little energy is left for association outside the classroom another name for this lack of energy is indifference. Despite its superficiality, the ordinary Cambridge society which...
...national sensation once more is felicity's zenith for Upton Sinclair, a fact which neither his enemies nor his friends have properly assayed. He is not a crackpot, but he is inordinately vain. He has not made a livelihood of scandalmongering; he has written because he was hurt. He is not an atheist; he is disgusted by commercialized religion. He is "not a "free-love"' cultist; he is an ascetic. His soft manners, his kindly eye, his intense, humorless and uncritical idealism, his obsession with the struggle of Labor and Capital for the fruits of Industry mark...
...dams he poured out his unaffected enthusiasm for electric power: "I always believed in that old saying of 'More power to you'. . . . This country, which is looking pretty bare today, is going to be filled with the homes of men, women and children who will be making an honest livelihood...