Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cents. Up to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York marched a process server with a subpoena for the Governor to appear as witness in behalf of one Lyman H. Bevans, Albany attorney facing disbarment. Governor Smith accepted the service, either to show he held himself no different from common citizens in the law's eyes, or because he was ignorant of the fact that the Governor of New York cannot be subpoenaed. With the subpoena, Governor Smith accepted the customary witness fee-50 cents -which he soon dropped into a Roman Catholic poorbox. When notified that the Governor...
...which President Wilson pressed in 1914 to blast open the Panama Canal. At the Coolidge touch, U. S. flags fell away from the ends of the Holland tubes. Officials of New Jersey streamed underground into New York and vice versa, followed in the first hour by 20,000 common citizens...
...This monument will always be a source of pride to the citizens of the United States. It shall constantly remind us of the friendship and cordiality extending along our northern boundary, guarded only by the common love of liberty and justice in the hearts of the people of both Canada and the United States...
...perfect case of High Snobbishness. However, a closer examination of the actual facts does not fail to prove that his idea is in reality nothing but a mirage. (Empty dream.) Unfortunately, our brothers go to Harvard. They use a flat "a", are perfectly acquainted with the letter "r", are common, lowdown, plain vulgar gentlemen. So are their friends, when observed intimately. So are their friends, when observed intimately. And their friends...
...little book entitled "Happiness" (Dutton, $1.00). William Lyon Phelps begins with the definition of the happiest person as "he who thinks the most interesting thoughts." Following up this rather Aristolelian idea to its logical conclusions, with a human and good common sense which take from the subject much of its inherent moralizing. Professor Phelps discusses in turn education, old age, health wealth and bovine contentment and their relation to the universally desired happiness, with a result that the 50 pages of the little book contain almost as many interesting and withal surprisingly novel ideas...