Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter is obviously delicate. Poland and Russia have not recently enjoyed cordial relations, and unfortunately M. Voikoff seems to have been an influential worker for a better amity. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo is recalled, and the prospect of war, if not imminent, seems at least possible. The Soviet is not enjoying success, the diplomatic rupture with England and the difficulties in the Far East have not made matters easy for the Russian government, and reports from Moscow hint that popular feeling regards the assassination as part of a concerted campaign against the Soviet...
Therefore if our young man wants to go into politics and, as President Coolidge once said, has office holding for his hobby, he had better go to the nearest street corner in the week before election day and make the acquaintance of his ward boss and take his orders from him. He will then be a small cog in the machine of his district and state and depending on his ability to deliver the votes and his knowledge of his bailiwick will be promoted...
Last week Chairman Clarence H. Mackay of the Philharmonic directors capped good news with better. He announced "an epoch in the musical arts of this country - in the engagement of Signor Toscanini as a "regular" for four more years after...
...deriders of Rotary will learn better very soon now. As Rotarian Gardner Mack wrote only this month in the Rotarian, Rotary has "turned the corner." From a little lunch group brought together by a lonely Chicago lawyer, it has become a huge organization "covering 40-odd separate nations and claiming approximately 130,000 members!" It is outgrowing what Rotarian William Allen White calls its "boy complex," its "garish ex-ternals," its "supersentimentalism and noisy infanticism." It is not unembarrassed by members who say Jesus was the original Rotarian and even bridles when admirers say "there must have been something divine...
...operated in the U. S.-over the Chicago & Alton, Michigan Central, Burlington, Great Western of Canada and the New York Central. The Pullman Co., then as now, owned all its cars, shared haulage fees with the railroads. Railroads gave up their own sleeping cars for the sake of the better "Pullmans...