Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is no doubt that Mr. Pinchot has not finished with prohibition as an issue. Governor Pat Neff of Texas is a Democrat and a resounding Dry. Mr. Pinchot had expressed admiration of the Texan's broad-brimmed hat. Last week a box reached the capital of Pennsylvania bearing the selfsame hat as a present. Governor Pinchot clapped it on his head, remarking: " My kind of a Republican can wear the hat of his kind of a Democrat...
...real play-boy is Jeffery Farnol. He has reached middle age, but he has still that enthusiastic curiosity about life, that eagerness for romance that made The Broad Highway and The Amateur Gentleman two of the most thoroughly refreshing of "escape" books. I met Mr. Farnol when he was in America two years ago to report the Dempsey- Carpentier fight. He has changed in appearance since then. Today he seemed a quiet, stocky, dark little man in a dark suit, peering through thick glasses, with shoes that were rugged and might have been prescribed for the Boy Scouts. Before...
...encouraged more and more the presentation of opinions from every angle. While this does not make demagogues or fanatics, it does exercise, in the words of Henry Adams, "a negative force of greatest value" which smoothes out the "violent political bias of childhood". It forms men with broad minds and far sight, men who "see things straight and see them whole". To keep Harvard worthy of its reputation must be the care of its officers, its graduates and its undergraduates...
...Harvard student is advised and directed as to his course of life and study. But there are few remarks which are poured into his jaded ears more often than one to the effect that Harvard College is not a more training school or technical laboratory, but a center for broad and liberal education. Apparently the advice has borne some fruit and certainly Harvard does not seem to be in danger, at least as far as choice of studies is concerned, of descending to the department store type of education. If together with Arnold we believe that Culture is "To know...
...interviews and discussions with many prominent men abroad; in Vienna with the Austrian ministers: at the Hague with Judge John Bassett Moore. American delegate on the Permanent Court of International Justice: in Geneva with the world's diplomats concerning the Greece-Italian controversy over Corfa. His experience is broad and varied, and he is said to be a pungent and aggressive speaker...