Word: barred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traditional red stockings that every Roosevelt, child and grownup, hangs over the fireplace in the President's second-floor bedroom. On Christmas Eve, after the children have kissed "Grandpa" good night, the elder Roosevelts stuff the stockings. Into each toe goes a toothbrush, a nailfile, a gaily wrapped bar of soap-vestiges of a custom that Mrs. Roosevelt began, as a sugar-coated reminder of cleanliness, when her six-footer sons were little tads...
...former Law School professor and present Supreme Court Justice was one of the many features of the album. It declared, "Felix Frankfurter has for years devoted his wide sympathies, his great energies, and his deep learning to the development and training of an enlightened and public spirited bar...
Whatever the reason for these mental illnesses, the greatest danger lies in the lure of fake remedies; for the sick man is an all-too-easy victim of the first best quack who happens to cross--and bar--his way; he believes in miracles as the drowning man believes in his straw. Harvard has its quack doctors in plenty, its tutoring schools perched along Massachusetts Avenue. Sick people flock in, sick people flock out. Liberal education at its best...
There are, of course, activities and activities. Habitual residence at the Ritz bar may be one of the latter. Others are valuable, but hardly educational in the Conant-Landis-Hutchins sense: Phillips Brooks House might be mentioned. Many others, however, actually do help to readjust the educational balance which is now so heavily on the side of subject matter, so far from the ideal of method...
...usual, a soft buzzer sounded, the little page-boys scampered aside, the great red curtains parted, and the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court stepped between them to their black-leather chairs behind the long mahogany bar. But this time there was a difference. At Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes' left, a chair was draped in black; on his right sat one of the loneliest men in the world. No spectator on last week's decision-day could look at gaunt, craggy-faced James Clark McReynolds* without a stir of sympathy...