Word: deeper
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Lamb of America" can be realized more clearly, I think, in his last two papers. "The Unpreparedness of Liberalism" and "On the Evening of the New Day." Here be strikes out beyond the charming trivialties of Lamb and Hazlitt and Hunt, fraught though these terrifies often are with a deeper meaning, and enters a larger region. Old experience has reached its prophetic strain. Yet the tone remains that of the familiar essay. We become aware that this wise man, talking so informally, is able to see not merely the rabbit in his lettuce patch but the world as a whole...
...majority of the members of the upper house expressed their desire for some sort of a League. The snag that is still holding them is the exact kind of a League desired. Obviously the underlying choice of the campaign is not the much touted and buffeted League, but a deeper decision on parties and leaders...
...advocate eleborate productions entailing tremendous expense in the community center," Mrs. Coburn continued, "It is not the glittering superficialities that count, it is the creating of a desire for the best--the deeper things--and the uniting of great communities in an inspiring common work--such as we saw in the war activities--that is the soul of the community theatre idea...
...about the business of cure. This it is which gives to the American election an importance far transcending the boundaries of the United States. Its conduct is the affair of the American people alone, but its issue is the concern of all the world. Our interest is perhaps deeper than that of other countries, and the reason for it naturally lies in our common history and in ideals long shared. These together give us the right to await the result with confidence, sure that the deep humanity and sturdy rectitude of judgment which are the heritage of men of English...
...impossible for me to pass by your interesting editorial on Gabriele D'Annunzio without writing you these few words, for by all means I do not wish Harvard men to have that impression of the poet that you have given them until they have looked a little deeper into the matter...