Word: protagonist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After Freshman Year, the undergraduate should be ready to choose the skeletal backbone which will constitute his major study. If he diverges from this track much more than is allowed him at present, he will graduate without acquiring what he is crying for a liberal education. Moreover, this same protagonist of free choice is demanding extension of the "honors" courses. This in itself is an excellent desideratum the ideal of educating a man in the ways of educating himself. But while the liberal demands more "honors" courses, in the same breath he shrieks "Paternalism!" Do not these two war-cries...
Comment. Philip Snowden (Labor) : ". . . the worst rich man's budget ever presented"; Mr. Churchill has "compassion" for "the poor, overburdened, starving, unemployed supertax payer. . . . So much for this example of protection, pure and simple, by this greatest apostle and protagonist of free trade, a Tory protectionist Chancellor of Exchequer...
Said one Alfred Coster Schermerhorn of Manhattan, protagonist: "The crossword puzzle is here to stay...
...Silent Accuser. Dog films usually succeed. Peter the Great is the canine protagonist of this example. He frees his master, falsely accused of murder, from jail. A remarkably trained actor, he is eminently worth watching...
...mystery of the attractive protagonist, Emilia Marty, carries you over the rather weak ending of the first act into a second act that is logically and dramatically satisfying. Out of the shadow of the bare stage the characters move into the light which surrounds the world-weary opera singer. She, herself, is removed from reality by the dramatist, but these men and women who come into contact with her are very real. Capek projects them with a tenuous sort of power, following up pathos or amusement with a modern chord of dissonance which startles, arrests, and then intrigues the imagination...