Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such solicitude and statements as Mr. Eldon O. Haldane's that ''the well balanced Southerner hopes that lynchings of Negroes will increase rather than decrease'' amply prove, it seems to me, some of the main contentions of Rope and Faggot-the inherent lawlessness of certain parts of the United States and trigger-on." :k propensities to defend positions which are morally, ethically and practically indefensible. Such correspondents of yours as Messrs. Robert E. Lee and Eldon O. Haldane reassure me. The reviews of Rope and Faggot have dwelt almost without exception upon the judicial, impartial...
...measure to the Jones-White Shipping Act which granted "subventions" to U. S. ships carrying U. S. mails on long-term contracts. Other factors which have increased the deficit have been recent legislation granting increased pay for night postal work, increased allowances to fourth-class postmasters, rate reductions on certain mail classes. The increasing use of the Congressional frank has added materially to the Post Office Department's deficits...
Among the first to arrive at the Members' Entrance was pepper-tongued Lady Nancy Astor, Virginia Conservative. Springing from her car before it had stopped she dashed into the building closely followed by Lt. Col. Sir Frederick Hall, a fellow Conservative. Both were intent on obtaining a certain comfortable corner seat on the Opposition benches. The instant the doors were opened, in they dashed with 40 other early arrivals. Lady Astor paused for an instant to take a card from an attendant with which to stake her seat. It was a fatal pause. Sir Frederick Hall kept going...
...related, a laborer wrote in from Trenton, N. J., and said: "Your newspaper is beautiful and interesting and I like it very much, but it is too small to wrap my lunch in." Added Editor Barzini: "There was torn from our eyes the veil of the mysteries of certain newspaper circulations...
...respectable young girls, either with the sanction, or in the company of, their parents or guardians. . . . [This] indicates such a general lack of ethical, as well as thetic qualities, as makes even the most liberal minded sigh for a return of the ascetic Puritan spirit which so sternly repressed certain forms of wrongdoing. . . . When daringly salacious scenes, songs and tableaux are wildly applauded, not only by evening audiences but at matinees where women predominate, the manager may quite naturally be expected to conclude that his production is not morally offensive to the community. . . . Last season . . . owing largely to the opposition...