Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Four names were heard above the rest as the Democrats wondered whom to invite as Number Two Man of their party next November. Assuming a solidly Democratic South, leaving Candidate Smith to win for himself in the wet East, and regardless of who is the Republican nominee, there are...
The Egyptian Parliament, greatly daring, had brought the ultimatum upon itself by approving the so-called Public Assemblies Bill. Under that innocuous title is cloaked a measure which would severely curtail the police power to maintain order during public meetings, which, in Egypt, turn very easily into anti-British race...
A few very rich men are among the 1,100 Stock Exchange members. But they are not active traders. The work is too mechanical for them to dissipate their wits on. They consider floor brokers as only high grade machines, who merely buy and sell securities upon orders. The real...
Persons of fashion use a strange adjective for the things which they consider as belonging properly to their environment; such things they call "smart." Less polished people use an adjective which is far more descriptive of smart things: they use the word "ritzy." The word is from the proper noun...
Harry Emerson Fosdick, bushy-haired, fearless Baptist clergyman, last week addressed the executive council of the American Bankers' Association, in Augusta, Ga., and harangued financial bigwigs thus: "Great disasters of history have not been caused by the weak. They have been caused by the misuse of power on the...