Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American University, Washington...
Evidently Max Feckler (TIME, July 15) is a little confused in his own argot or lingo. First, he refers to the trainride-stealing American bum, and then refers to him as a hobo. There is no connection whatsoever between a bum and a hobo...
...prying soul has disturbed the Vice President's innocent pleasure. During the Spring he went frequently to the Maryland tracks, Bowie, Pimlico, Havre de Grace. He could not get away for the Kentucky Derby, but was on hand to see Blue Larkspur win the American Classic last fortnight at Arlington Park, near Chicago...
General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, paid the "war" a fleeting visit, inspected the field of action. Said he: "This war game constitutes the biggest and best tactical campaign ever waged on American soil by the U. S. Army." Just what it all meant strategically he left to the War College to study...
...Conference smothered the controversy, adopted no resolution at all. But as the discussions passed on to other topics, the Governor of North Carolina, talking on special treatment for youthful criminals, found opportunity to show himself more subtle than his thunderous neighbor, with this allusion: "The tendency of American reformers is almost never to teach, to educate public opinion, to convince gradually the citizenry of the value of reform, but is to secure the passage of prohibitory legislation and then leave it to the Government to carry out the reformers' ideas. . . . We go in strongly for 'noble experiments...