Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partisan politics" against his good friend Secretary Mills, accused him of "juggling" figures to suit his own economic prejudices. But most of Washington knew that the dispute was largely academic because estimating revenue at long range is largely guessing in the dark, with the chief factors of economic life beyond prediction. The House at least had made a bold and brave attempt to balance the Budget. The psychological value of that was worth almost as much as the billion dollars in new revenue...
...influence of the McClatchys beyond their rural constituencies does not approach that which Editor Rowell wielded in his prime. Lecturer on political science, regent of the University of California, member of the National Crime Commission, Institute of Pacific Relations and many another body, he is still regarded by oldsters as the sage of the Pacific Coast. Long active in politics, he was most conspicuous as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee in the Hughes campaign for President. Hughes's loss of California to Wilson was popularly ascribed to his failure to handshake California's Governor Hiram Warren Johnson, then...
...shows, a beer garden and cabaret, he found it suitable to clap a copy of Seville's Giraldo Tower on one side and then get his good friend Augustus St. Gaudens to set a 13-ft. nude Greek goddess tiptoe on the Moorish-Gothic-Renaissance cathedral belfry. Beyond its inappropriateness, the Garden tower was a lovely thing and New York cherished her Diana. For almost 40 years newspaper poets, after-dinner speakers, prize fighters, cab drivers, club members waxed sentimental about her. William Sydney ("O. Henry") Porter wrote one of his best known stories, "The Lady Higher Up," about...
...visions, the desires that fool man out of his limits lead Poet Jeffers' tragic heroes & heroines into dark and terrifying ways. "Tamar," "The Tower Beyond Tragedy," ''The Women at Point Sur" all tell incestuous tales. "Roan Stallion" tells of a woman's love for a horse. Though critics, with few exceptions, have extolled the splendor and intensity of Poet Jeffers' works, some women think that he spoils his poems with such outrageous themes. Even his wife complained. "Robin," said she after he had finished "Roan Stallion," "when will you quit forbidden themes?" Robin answered with an enigmatic smile...
Gray extension beyond the long white violence...