Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possibilities are as endless as the pains which should accompany the choice. Most obvious are the names of historic characters, titles of books, or the heroes of one's favorite comic strip. Better are literary allusions or foreign quotations. But really the best are those that pun gently, or carry hidden some delicate and awful meaning. Choice examples of this from other years are "Titus A. Drum" for example, or "Lewd Fellows of a Basser Sort", "Twelve Knights in a Bathroom", or "Virginibus Puerisque...
...monarchs by pointing out civilization's debt for the truths discovered by scientists, and the progressiveness of college trained men. Doctor Hopkins, referring to Faraday and Pasteur, refuted the financiers, but in doing so deprecated the insistence on material results. He testified to the value of "better thinking", to the need of it in a nation where book censorship, the Scopes' Trial, and Mayor Thompson could happen...
...Warren: "Nobody, perhaps, knows better than I do the genuine Republicanism of the Senator from Iowa, or what feeling of interest he has for the farmer. He is a farmer, so am I. We are both farmers...
Last week Secretary Andrew William Mellon furnished Funnyman Harry Lauder with an anecdote than which Sir Harry and some 240,000 others had seldom heard a better. The anecdote: It seems that the U. S. Treasury Department and U. S. taxpayers had, between them, made many a mistake in the amounts of taxes payable for fiscal years from 1927 back to 1925 and beyond. These mistakes netted the U. S. a total overpayment of $103,858,687.78. Last week Secretary Mellon sent Congress the names-numbering some 240,000 and taking up 12,133 typed pages- of the taxpayers...
...about his disciple, the graduate, by letter or conference, can advise him as he sees fit, and with perfect frankness and freedom. And the fact that no compulsion is placed on the undergraduate either in this respect, but that he seeks knowledge of his own will, is likely to better the relations. For unfortunately the virtues of experience as a teacher do not overshadow the waste and frustration that accompany her instruction. Particularly fortunate, then must the student, still grasping his diploma uncertainly, think himself who can have a man, seasoned and successful in this schooling, to guard him against...