Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know that you [Judge Thayer] have spoke your hostility against us with friends of yours on the train, at the University Club of Boston, on the golf club of Worcester, Mass. I am sure that if the people who know all what you say against us would have the civil courage to take the stand, maybe your Honor-I am sorry to say this because you are an old man, and I have an old father- but maybe you would be beside us in good justice at this time. . . . "I would not wish to a dog, or to a snake...
Last week, on the broad Canberra plain, the new Parliament House stood completed, smelling strongly of fresh paint and plaster. Teeming were the Canberra Hotel ("finest in the Southern Hemisphere"), the Ainslee, the Kurrajong, the Acton Hotel, and the three large boarding hotels which the Government has erected for civil servants until their cottages and houses are finished...
Upon these hotels workmen were plastering furiously last week, tacking shingles like a swarm of mad woodpeckers. Some two score homes stood finished, furnished and occupied; but civil servants mostly slept at hotels after their 429-mile trip from Melbourne. Like barnyard fowls unused to migrating, which have suddenly been shooed from one coop into another, the employes of the Commonwealth of Australia were cackling many a minor protest last week; but the approach of a royal personage stilled all complaints...
...retract their error last week when attorneys for President von Hindenburg began suit for libel against the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne (Red Flag) because of a cartoon it published on April 1. Rote Fahne depicted a huge bull standing before three white-clad butchers, with the caption: Hindenburg in Civil Dress Reviews the Companies of Honor on Remembrance Day. Whatever this meant (and the President's attorneys professed ignorance) it at least implied that the Herr President resembles a bull, an allegedly libelous implication. As the suit got under way last week, the Berlin police destroyed on their...
...Vagabond may continue his quest for knowledge for two hours, in Economics 2 at 9 o'clock, and in History 13, at 10 o'clock. In Economics 2, Professor Gay will lecture on "Railroad Development Since the War". Dr. Baxter will speak on "Great Britain and the American Civil War" at 10 o'clock in Sever 35. This should be of especial interest to all Southern students in the University, and the Vagabond invites all to meet him there...