Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed Tariff Bill occasioned no great surprise in Washington. That he should express his opposition by a formal statement from Democratic National Committee headquarters, as he did last week, was surprising indeed. With a gleeful rattle a Democratic mimeograph ground out this Borah opinion: "There is no better illustration of the growth of bureaucracy than the story of the flexible tariff. . . . We are now delegating the full taxing power to the Executive...
...remarkable that you don't see more of it. Why the Graphic? It's a good newspaper to work for, and just because I'm a Dry is no reason why I shouldn't be on a paper that is against Prohibition. That makes it better." No debutante to the headlines is Newsman Upshaw. Seven years ago, just before Christmas, when President Harding called a meeting of Governors, Congressman Upshaw stood up on the House floor and shouted: "If these Governors who put their feet under the President...
...dies. There are men and women, humor, sadness and struggle in this picture. It misses being a great picture only because its story is not a big enough framework for its implications and because the actors have their own way too much. You feel that it would be better if its workmanship were not so finicky. Half of it is silent and half in dialog. The silent part is the most effective. Best shot: Miss Wood teaching her family to sing Christmas carols...
...significant movements in education, this year it is being devoted especially to the promotion of peace through education. Prof. Gilbert Murray of Oxford. President of the League of Nations Committee of Intellectual Cooperation, warned against expecting too much from teaching citizenship, foreign languages, or from travel. He concluded. "... A better road to international goodwill is to cultivate common memories, associations, and aims. That is. to cultivate such subjects as ancient history, Latin, or physical science...
...designs clothes. Women with whose ideas about posing themselves he takes issue, should feel flattered rather than other- wise. They are "worth bothering about." Of necessity an ethnologist and character-reader of sorts, he says dark-haired people have more depth of character than light-haired and make better subjects psychologically as well as pictorially. Beauty attracts him less than "interesting" faces. Says...