Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club went through its tapering-off session. Although in their two first games, which they won handily, McLaughry's men failed to live up to pre-season hopes, they showed flashes of great power. The last week has been spent on concentrating on co-ordination, timing and clean ball-handling, together with drill on a new series of deceptive plays. The Bear outfit is about ready to find itself and should McLaughry's boys play the game of which they are capable. Harvard will be in for a difficult afternoon...
...previous comparable period." Responsibility for these disputes the President split equally: "Machinery set up by the Federal Government has provided some new methods of adjustment. Both employers and employes must share the blame of not using them as fully as they should. ... It is time that we made a clean-cut effort to bring about that united action of management and labor which is one of the high purposes of the Recovery...
...Camden, N. J., Mrs. Elsie Barnabie eyed malevolently the workmen who had come to replace the electric light pole on her front lawn, refused even to give her the old one for firewood. As soon as they had dug a clean new hole she plumped herself down, dangled her legs in the hole, delivered an ultimatum: "Now you can't put any pole in at all. It would block our view." Equipped with blankets, food and a blazing fire nearby, she sat stolidly on the edge of the hole all afternoon, all night. Every eight hours a new shift...
...light of this speech, it is interesting to recall the origin of the term, Forgotten Man. In 1883 William Graham Sumner, then Professor of Political and social Science in Yale University, delivered an address under the title of "The Forgotten Man." Summer defined him as "the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes, and is never heard of out of his little circle." The lecturer then went on to say: "We all seem to be under the delusion that the rich pay the taxes . . It is the Forgotten Man who pays . . He works, he votes...
...England intellectualization of Hell. It is the place to which men are condemned who inhabit "the wrong world"-preachers who should have been lawyers, businessmen who should have been artists. Principal figure is a mediocre painter who escaped from "the wrong world" by becoming a pump-manufacturer ("a spring-clean unimpeachable pump-builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment of conscience, the erstwhile painter watches fate overtake the other inhabitants, eventually wins his release from the accursed country. Total effect of Amaranth is typically Robinsonian...