Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disclosed. It appeared afterward that while there had been no criminations from either side, there was precious little in the way of concrete results. Acting as spokesman as the group emerged after an hour and a half, Mr. Sloan declared: "All of us agree we have a better understanding of each other's problems. . . ." Steelman Weir, who is terrified by reporters, avoided comment by saying over & over: "I want to go to Bermuda. I want to go to Bermuda...
...Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Since Labor was sharing the brunt of Recession in layoffs and shortened hours, Laborman Harrison took it upon himself to bring Government and Business face to face. Soon he was scurrying back & forth between the President's son James and the better Manhattan clubs, and five men were selected to do the talking: Mr. Chester, Pennsylvania R. R.'s Martin W. Clement, Johns-Manville's Lewis H. Brown, General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. and National Steel's Ernest Tener Weir...
Since A. F. of L. would like nothing better than to split the powerful Garment Workers off from C. I. 0., William Green & Co. were discreetly jubilant. A few days later Max Zaritsky, another behind-the-scene peace man, lined up behind Mr. Dubinsky with some 35.000 C. I. O. United Hat, Cap and Millinery workers. John Lewis, emerging from a conference in Manhattan with a U. S. Steel official, was asked if he had anything to say. Said he: "Nothing in particular except that Mr. Dubinsky. whom I esteem highly, seems to be giving an imitation of Eliza crossing...
...last week he was in trouble again. Joe Buzzard's venerable age saved him from Delaware's famed whipping post. Chief Justice Daniel Layton's remarks as he sentenced him to two more years, however, were sufficiently humiliating: "You're old enough to know better." Joe Buzzard agreed. The suitcase for whose theft he began his 14th jail term belonged to a shoe salesman, contained nothing but tennis shoes, all for the left foot...
...young authors that they write with more care towards the use of words. Wilson Follett complained that the definition of a sentence as "a complete thought expressed in words" had become obsolete. The economist, Stuart Chase, in a recent provocative article, urged that the way to make language a better vehicle for ideas was to pursue the science of semantics, which teaches that the two main sins of language are identification of words with things and the misuse of abstract terms...