Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Education and the Flesh" asks very reasonably, if a bit redundantly, for a Harvard that will train its sons to get out into a world full of Hitlers and Brain Trusters and run that world much better than these men are now running it. The central problem of his essay, which may be out roughly as that of "theory" and "practice," of "pure learning" and "applied learning," is, like those Mr. Chase treats, of perennial and inexhaustible interest, and if Mr. Strauss has not solved it (I expect he would hardly claim to have done...
...classic may therefore be disappointed to find it projected upon the screen as an up-to-date tearjerker, in which young Bill Peck experiences every childhood misery known to Hollywood, from a cuff on the ear to forced separation from his mongrel dog. When he writes an essay to the effect that Mr. Peck (Thomas Meighan) is an ideal father, he learns that Mr. Peck is not his father. When his Aunt Lily (Dorothy Peterson) and his Cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) arrive in the Peck household, Horace turns out to be a juvenile sneak & pedant. Bill Peck's gang...
...never chooses a monosyllable when a polysyllable will do. To him lobbyists are "obscene harpies." Fellow-Senators settle back for a quarter-hour's solid amusement when he strikes such a forensic vein as inspired his essay on the Democratic Donkey: "He is a braying compendium of stately dignity, stanch endurance, fortitude and patience. ... In our quadrennial Presidential campaigns there is more music in his raucous hee-haw than in the midnight minstrelsy of a nightingale. The donkey is a serio-comic philosopher, whose stamina and stoicism conquered the wilderness . . . a sure-footed creature of epicurean taste and gargantuan appetite...
...Harvard man, I just loved the nice long "timely" essay on Princeton in the June 18 issue of TIME. Indeed I liked it so much that if you do not mind, I should be glad to have exchanged my subscription to TIME for one to the Princeton Alumni Weekly...
...Harvardman Campbell see TIME, Feb. 5, delight himself further with a "nice long timely' essay" on Harvard's new president, Dr. James Bryant Conant...