Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cities have a blacker political past than Cincinnati. Extreme informality marked her electoral methods in the 20's. On election morning the first voters to the polls chose the judges. If a Democratic sheriff was in office, he was likely to round up all the Negroes in the calaboose for the day, lest they vote Republican. In the election of 1884, there were two fatal shootings and Election Judge William Howard Taft was one of the very few who went unarmed...
...Minister to Persia, President Roosevelt chose William Harrison ("Bill") Hornibrook of Utah, Minister to Siam under President Wilson. The Administration owed quiet, erudite Mr. Hornibrook, publisher of the Salt Lake Times, a double debt. A militant Democrat but no Mormon, he published last year a tract called "Thirty Reasons Why Smoot Should Be Defeated." Onetime Senator Smoot admits the pamphlet defeated his reelection. By substituting Senator James Watson's name for Smoot's, the tract was also used to good effect in the Indiana Senatorial campaign...
...individual to avoid, as evidence of good taste, public confession of them. In writing this present biography, then, Mr. Starrett must have been in something of a quandary. If he failed to give his exclamation points free rein, devotees would find him privately insensate; if, on the contrary, he chose to bare his personal reactions, those same devotees would very likely pronounce him bathetic...
...example of the Cambridge esprit de corps which is quite typical of what Yale admires in the Harvard man. The head of Eliot House was of a mind to give a festive luncheon before the Yale game and announced to the members of his house that any who so chose were more than welcome to come. Although he should have known better, he was disappointed to find at the appointed hour a total of zero guests assembled to partake of his hospitality. Only by urgent messages to his intimate friends with Yale guests was he able to gather enough people...
When the National Student League branch at Yale chose to involve itself in a foundry strike, many things might have been expected. There might have been a few heads broken, or a ponderous manifesto on the academic spirit by the owner of the foundry. But only a few cynical sculs could have foreseen that Dean Mendell would make the statement which he did, all unafraid and all complacent, to the effect that Yale wanted nothing so much as to foster a spirit of cooperation between students and neighbours, albeit the neighbours were strike-breakers of the most brutal and witless...