Word: myth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vintage, as you report, but was made in 1921. The straw-woven shoes are now no more, as at least a dozen old friends read your report and have supplied me with new pairs. The $20,000,000 with which I am credited is entirely a myth but since your article appeared I have received wires and letters from acquaintances of years gone by requesting immediate loans. I believe I am also safe in stating that I have been given the opportunity to finance at least half of the new inventions which have patents now pending...
...archbishops be forthwith expelled from Mexico. Argued he: "We must open the minds of the people by teaching them to see the world in the light of science. We cannot do this while the Church makes them believe in God. We must tell them that God is a myth, a word, a grotesque thing." The Deputies agreed, voted unanimously to petition President Abelardo Rodriguez to perform the expulsion of such of Mexico's eight archbishops and 25 bishops as have remained in the country since the persecutions of recent years...
...annals of history with that impersonal and brutal engine of destruction which disrupted the entire world. Unfortunately there are others to take his place, others eager to defend their nation's honor, ready to make the supreme sacrifice for a cause they neither understand or care about. The myth of patriotism still supplies cannon with their fodder and armies with their generals. Will it always be thus? Alas, yes, until men begin to ask why they are fighting and refuse to give way to an indefinite emotional sentiment instilled in them by men who sit in easy chairs miles behind...
...least a thousand years to come, and in the United States one must know how to sit on a picket fence without damaging one's anatomy. In Italy, Germany, and Russia where one party has completely taken over the reins of government, freedom of thought has become a myth and an unpatriotic form of amusement. Even in this great land of the free and the brave to criticize the present administration is regarded as an act of tyranny and the interloper a tory. It is inevitable that where regimentation of economic and political activities occurs, there also must be found...
Last week Dartmouth got the controversy it desired. The newsy Art Digest carried as its leading article an acidulous diatribe against Dartmouth and its murals by Harvey Maitland Watts, a director of Philadelphia's Moore Institute of Art, Science and Industry. Prouder of his "The Gulf Stream Myth and Its Relation to the Mild Climate of Europe" is Critic Watts than of any other item in his career as a lecturer and author. Wrote he in the Art Digest...