Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Frankly I am quite discouraged about women in politics. . . . The suffragists have made the same mistake as the temperance group. Both thought that with their victory they had only to defend their positions. . . . The suffragists stopped their educational work of convincing people that women had a right to equality and devoted themselves to other interests...
...nearby park they stalked a group of wet-nosed children at play. Advancing cautiously from the rear Mr. Takahashi suddenly held his mirror before the chief sniveller's startled face. The boy turned, discovered Crusader Takahashi smiling benignly over his tabard, holding out a paper handkerchief. Hypnotized, the sniveller accepted it, trumpeted dutifully...
Although he is now 74, he still works assiduously. This year he published Civilization and Its Discontents,- a psychoanalyst's survey of modern civilization. We suffer, today, from a cultural super ego, he states. This super ego is a kind of acute group conscience which prohibits and censors the individual, emphasizes standards to be lived up to rather than happiness which is the natural goal of men. As an individual becomes neurotic under these conditions, so the whole of humanity may develop a neurosis. The super ego is a manifestation of aggressiveness, one of the two great antagonistic forces...
...much the decline in stocks has reduced the earnings-price ratio. Current prices of 405 industrial stocks average 11.8 times estimated 1930 earnings. Forty-three public utility issues average 17.2 times estimated 1930 earnings. Railroad stock prices, however, have not shrunk in proportion to the net. In this group, 37 stocks average 14.1 times net against 12.9 times a year ago. Notable exceptions still exist. General Electric is at 35 times estimated earnings for this year, Consolidated Gas at 26 times...
...never deserted him. At 70 he was finishing the Palazzo Farnese, altering fortifications, making a church of the Baths of Diocletian, designing the Capitoline square, and planning the dome of domes for St. Peter's Cathedral. In 1564 he died, leaving comparatively little sculpture, his few majestic frescoes, a group of sonnets, all works of a lovely strangeness, a married strength and sweetness...