Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However the present plan now adopted, is a very generous one, and it is better that it should come now than at some later time, when some newly-passed law might have forced it down the University throat...
...want to go to commencements, to catch snakes, to make fireworks, to play with Erector Sets, to write plays, to do ballet dancing all over the house, to print menus in the living room, fine and dandy. Any of these things is much better than working. But before giving full sanction to this joyous, carefree mode of life, we must observe that it all rests on the money the Grandpa made before that one morning when he decided in the elevator going up to his office that he didn't want to may any more money, and turned around...
...down three times a week under Harvard's gold eagles, Professor Slichter warned them not to expect immediate results from "putting your house in order." Said he: "It takes from two to five years for the employes to gain confidence that conditions have really changed for the better...
...wife (the Lippmanns have no children). Even by the standards of U. S. success, Walter Lippmann does not lead an underprivileged life. Mornings he writes (can turn out in his illegible longhand a smooth, 1,200-word column in two hours). Afternoons he rides, fishes, plays golf (fairly), tennis (better), or referees a polo game for his Long Island friends (see cut, p. 45). In the private matter of personal friends, he is more apt to be on intimate terms with Morgan partners than with union leaders. He is himself a member of a union, the American Newspaper Guild...
...down as missing after a hopeless attack, recovers in a German hospital, goes to Russia rather than return to perfidious England after the Armistice. There he finds Zena again, marries her. Though he survives both the Red-&-White civil war and Zena's death, Julian eventually discovers no better niche for himself in the post-War world than free-lance journalism, is last seen heading for the U. S., on the apparent principle of any port in a storm. Dubiously optimistic last line is supplied by a farewell telegram from the woman Julian has lately left, informing him that...