Word: contentedness
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The Associated Press meeting, held before the Publishers' sessions, confined its discussion to the broadcasting of news. Publisher Jerome Dewitt Barnum of the Syracuse Post-Standard asked the A. P. to forbid the use of its bulletins both for direct broadcast and for such interpretive deliveries as that of Lowell...
John Galsworthy, preparing to return to England, declared: "It does seem to me, coming back here after five years, that the people of America are more quietly efficient, more kindly if possible, less hurried, and on the whole, more contented-looking than I ever remember them."
Well aware is Boss Curry of the Hall's present ticklish situation, for which there is an interesting parallel in the last great Tammany scandal. In 1912, the year before Boss Murphy had Governor Sulzer impeached, a gambler named Herman Rosenthal was killed on the eve of his giving damaging...
The "ecclesiastical authorities" quoted were undoubtedly Roman Catholics. At Lambeth Palace, residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Anglican ecclesiastics contented themselves with stating that the Primate of All England has been suffering for months with neuralgia. The fact that Dr. Lang's great & good friend Banker Morgan has invited...
"Don't you tell me anything about the shelter. I go there constantly. I mingle with the men and sleep there under disguise. I spend a great deal of my salary there. I've been all through the place seeing things for myself. I've found the...