Word: beds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...vital need in this time of vast expenditures. The necessity of such a system has been long realized; it has been blocked right along by the "pork-barrel" specialists in the House. The question of simplified income taxes shows that while the President has been in the sick-bed he has not lost the "common touch." He comes out in favor of a tariff revision that will enable foreign countries to pay off their vast debts to us; at the same time he points out the desirability of fostering our great dyestuff industry that was created during...
...product of these European elections lies in the seeming assurance that the people who are having cold shivers for fear of the Bolsheviks can now go to bed in safety, and expect to wake up in the morning with their houses undemolished by bombs. The world, when one comes right down to it, is a pretty safe and sane old place, after...
Snobbery, of course, is only an annoyance. So are bed-bugs and boils; but normal people will take great pains to avoid them. The animal's organs adapt themselves to its environment, and kingship stands for the environment that produced snobbery. Once developed, the organ outlives its causes. There is your vermiform appendix, for example. So snobbery will outlive kings. Probably we shall have our society columns for a good while. But snobbery is on the declining hand. --SATURDAY EVENING POST...
Lincoln died because the abnormal mind of J. Wilkes Booth was persuaded he was a tyrant. McKinley was stretched on his bier because Czolgosz believed what yellow journalists told him. Clemenceau is on a bed of pain because a man was stimulated into action by poison distilled from the false charge that the great peacemaker was an imperialistic friend...
...society is planning to work in conjunction with the University Diplomatic Club and, if possible, the official body of the University and the reception committee at Boston. It is hoped that several members of the society may bed placed on the Entertainment Committee...