Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jeanette C. Beach of the W. C. T. U. of New York tried to help Hoover carry that state by crying out: "You have the choice of voting for Herbert Hoover, friend of the people and hope of the dry cause, or for the other man, with alcoholized brain, who can't keep sober no matter how he tries. . . . Do you want this to be a land of the free and a home of the brave, or a land of the spree and the home of the knave...
...Himalayan Blunder." Since the whole ill-starred affair seems to have sprung from the blundering brain of Sir Austen Chamberlain, the duty of flaying him may properly be left to the press of his own country. Last week the Daily Express, an independent paper with strong leanings toward Sir Austen's own party (Conservative) said: "There is hardly a line in this long series of telegrams and despatches that does not betray a naive misunderstanding of all outside opinion and psychology such as Germany herself hardly surpassed in the days...
Died. Dr. Albert Schneider, 65, able scientist & criminologist of Portland, Ore.; from cerebral hemorrhage; in Portland. Dr. Schneider devised an apparatus for registering brain reactions known as the lie detector...
...women of our colleges are taking. The task of Socialism in America and in the world, is to build a party which will seek to control the necessities of our common life for the common good. We can use government in the service of the worker with hand and brain, to bring to us all plenty of peace and freedom. That will never be done by two parties belonging to the same set of interests. To correct this dangerous, undemocratic situation, is a challenge to your generation...
...mighty sweep of the mind of the sporting writer that lifts him to the heights of rhetoric and the ridiculous we cannot answer. But the mystery to the layman is not in the language, which is after all a first cousin to English, but in how the eye and brain of the reporter could identify the individual and yet follow the play, when Father and Brother, and Uncle Ralph failed miserably, and missed the touchdown because they were looking for Number...