Word: containers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breaking the Illinois banking law for his crooked-but-charming friend, William Lorimer; who renounced his own ambition for the Presidency, this year, in deference to his friend. Candidate Lowden; and who, even if Candidate Lowden is altogether out of it now, continues unreceptive for motives that may well contain as much party loyalty as shrewd personal circumspection. Should the Dawes attitude become receptive now, the rift in Republicanism would gape indeed, for subtlety breeds suspicion. Vice President Dawes has exhibited such subtlety in the past that his inheritance of the Lowden support, after all that has been said...
...Porto Rico's national anthem, sung from early dawn to murmurous dusk by spur-legged game-birds tethered in squalid door-yards all over the island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn...
...Album will be the largest in history. It will contain pictures of 902 past and present members of the class, while the part of the book containing photographs of faculty members and officers of the University has been considerably expanded...
...Freshmen about Harvard, but it will also be placed on sale for the benefit of upper classmen, alumni, and outsiders. All of the copy has been placed in the printers hands and it is expected to have the first copies ready for sale at Class Day. The booklet will contain six articles by writers intimately acquainted with Harvard in addition to a preface by President Lowell. It will also contain several views of Harvard college in the past and of former athletic groups...
...matter how unequivocal this statement may appear, it is actually a statesman's weasel, as appears from the Baron's next sentence: "The proposal of the United States is understood to contain nothing that would refuse to independent states the right of self-defense...