Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years he has risen slowly from obscure school teaching to be rector of a little college, then Speaker. Unashamed of poverty, he claims to have worn every day since 1924 the same now threadbare morning coat, striped trousers, soft felt hat. A meek man, President Miklas has been content to stand and wait upon Monsignor Seipel and other leaders of the Clerical party called "Christian Socialist." The fact that he was elected is a tribute to the continued potency of Chancellor Seipel's coalition. But the fact that 91 Socialist electors abstained is of far greater significance...
...pages of which are highly illustrated in brilliant colors. Two reproductions from the Bible Moralisee, which is a French work of the thirteenth century, show the pages from Matthew and Luke in which the story of the nativity is written, with the margin beside each verse illustrating the content with colored drawings. Another interesting group contains plates made from old paintings depicting the life of Christ as a monk of the twelfth century...
...rally two runners on base, two out, the score in a ticklish position, and the pitcher up. How many in the bleachers would substitute invariably for the trembling of the game in the chances of a weak hitter or a pinch-hitter entering cold, the placid content in the assurance that Casey, mighty Casey, or someone nearly as mighty, is advancing...
...Whedon '29 is writing the book for the production this year which will be directed by H. R. Thayer '29. A special musical accompaniment and group of songs is being written by B. D. Hahighen '30 and E. B. Murphy '31. The name and content of this year's show has not yet been divulged by the men in charge of the production...
Whether or not they are content with the human scene, readers of On My Way will find "that c'toonist's" informal record of his own mountain-shiftings a merry masterpiece of shirt-sleeve autobiography, sketched by a pen that achieves with words the same quaint economy for which its line is famed...