Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extraordinarily interesting issue, the November Advocate conceals under pseudonyms the authorship of its two most controversial offerings. About the identity of "Richard Caxton", who writes "The Bloody Shirt, World-War Model", and "William Breaksbread" and "Kid Marlow", authors of "The Rally", an uninitiate reviewer had better hazard no guesses. He can assert, however, that these gentlemen handsomely assist the Advocate's announced intention of making itself both more timely and more readable. Both subjects, the American Legion and a department (or is one point of "The Rally" that, after all it isn't a department?) of the University...
Reports of the conference with Mr. Morgan were to the effect that the world market could not absorb sufficient German bonds to make the lump payment project feasible. In this case the statesmen can do no better than to definitely fix the amount of the annual payments, and the numbers of years during which Germany shall continue to pay them...
...especially adaptable to translation; its sly and sad description of improvident aristocracy, vaguely cheerful in the face of ruin, is a little forlorn in a strange tongue and a new country, as its people are forlorn in the airy chaos of change. The Civic Repertory did far better with the play than James B. Fagan did last spring and Nazimova played beautifully as Madame Ravensky...
...Public Health Service. Next to him may be ranked Health Commissioner Matthias Nicoll Jr. of New York State. With him might have been ranked Louis Israel Harris of New York City and Herman Niels Bundesen of Chicago. Both are now out of office-Dr. Harris because he got a better paying job with New York milk suppliers, Dr. Bundesen because he did not truckle sufficiently to Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson of Chicago. Other health officers sympathized so with Dr. Bundesen that they last year elected him president of their American Public Health Association. His successor as Chicago's commissioner...
...geese-we petted thim an' thin we ate thim." Grandfather Tully lived through the Great Famine "a-suckin' the wind and drinkin' the rain on the bogs,'' then migrated to Ohio there to continue his ditching, peddling, champion drinking, yarn-swapping. Whether he was better off in Ohio, who can say-his son's possessions were "a wife, six children, two cows, one hog, a blind mare, and a sense of sad humor"; his grandson's a keen Irish sense of pathos, a true Irish gift...