Word: goed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Caroline invariably admits the truth of his suave impeachment but to date (aetat. 60) has done nothing much about it except call for madder music, stronger wine. At last, however, she retires to a New England cottage to write her reminiscences, get them off her mind. Then she will go some other place, do something else...
...died in a charity hospital. Then came the War, and Caroline worked as a nurse in the daytime, at night as a proxy sweetheart for homesick soldiers. In post-War Paris she was one of the loudest maenads. One day she decided to take old Tawaska's advice, go off in her own company and have a look at herself. Caroline may not be Authoress Borden's mouthpiece, but Caroline has a low opinion of men, and her experience would seem to justify it. Only the queer (and apparently celibate) Tawaska has her admiration. However emotional her judgments...
...made himself the High Priest of the school by now. ... To see one of Peter Arno's illustrations of a one-line observation made by a dowager in a theater lobby or a young man in a porch hammock is to realize that, so long as people go on saying incongruous or pompous things, this young man will never lack for oysters, for the world is his." The Arno type of humorous drawing is hard to define, easy to recognize. The pictures that make you laugh are ludicrous, often slightly mad but always obvious; the pictures that make...
...announcement that "Copey," alias Prof. Emeritus Charles Townsend Copeland, 'is to read at the Harvard Union next Tuesday, and that late comers will be given the privilege of gnashing their teeth at the closed door, does not go far enough. Is the radio audience not to have the joy of listening to him? He has more friends outside the academic grove than in Cambridge, and it is debatable whether the under-graduates appreciate good reading. Nobody can read the Bible like him. Nobody knows what Kipling's verse is until "Copey" reads it. In the days when folks used...
...trustees are not to be envied in their task of judging "intellectual maturity." If they can avoid the danger of accepting only high scholastic averages as a criterion, and still not go afield with vague demands for "qualities of leadership" they will escape using two standards that often prove to be anything but uniform. As far as possible, personal contact with the candidates would seem to suggest a good beginning for a sound judgment of their worth...