Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...implications were: 1) that the crowd was disorderly; 2) that, through neglect or ingratitude, Nominator Roosevelt had been omitted from the reserved-seat Iist at this, the Brown Derby's crowning moment...
...cynic. It has been remarkable, therefore, to watch the increasing emphasis which the American Bar Association has felt it should lay, at its distinguished annual conventions, upon the criminal tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation between the lawyers' neglect of criminal practice and the insurgence of Crime itself. Retiring as president of the American Bar Association at last week's meeting in Seattle, was Silas Hardy Strawn, eminent resident of "the crime capital of the U. S.," Chicago. Last winter, when a group of Chicagoans, who were really...
Dramatis Personae. Sicily being a time-honored battleground for radicals and conservatives, its "typical inhabitants" of the 'gos were legion. Not to neglect the least of these, Pirandello has recreated every conceivable type, but luckily his elaborate personnel sorts itself out into groups, and a few unforgettables single themselves out from the groups...
Somewhere in the makeup of the most efficient and energetic American is a weakness for parades and few obligations will keep him from stopping to watch one go by. Yet often processions that are arranged for his sole benefit meet with the most complete neglect, as witness the substantial deficit remaining to Mr. Pyle after the completion of his cross country "bunion derby". In Nebraska another attempted parade has just fallen through. This time it is the calvacade of indignant farmers in autos that was expected to descend upon Kansas City and impress upon the Republican Convention gathered there...
...advantages of this plan are enumerated by its author. It abolishes the possibility of flagrant neglect of work; it changes the professor from a quizzer to a guide; it removes the threat of periodic examinations and of the cramming that anticipates them; and for the old lock-step education it substitutes individual freedom of movement. Although President Holt in criticizing the recitation and lecture system of Yale and Harvard is brave and heralded in combatting the present movement toward complete freedom in study, his retrogression toward the grammar school is quite unacceptable. The virtue of final examination is at present...