Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is a good deal of misapprehension in this country as to what you were convicted of. [Referring to M. Caillaux's conviction and exile but recently ended for defeatism during the War.] We know it was not treason, but?...
...General Wood had been nominated and elected in 1920 matters might have been a great deal different. Colonel Sprague would probably be a Republican today, and Colonel Procter, when he was home from his post at the Court of St. James's, might have dined amicably at the home of Postmaster General Sprague...
...whole the play was disappointing. The vogue of Mr. Arlen has thinned with the increasing opinion that a good deal of his material is shoddy. It is highly colored but the dyes run. He does not talk as people talk; his new idiom is not sufficiently imaginative to wear. The phrase, employed by TIME (Sept. 22, 1924) when his books first began to sweep the land, remains the best description: he is the Harold Bell Wright of the sophisticates...
...champion had not had occasion to deal with that chop-stroke for some time. The sort of men who make their bread and butter by betting on mud-horses* were ready to wager that it would bother him. It is true that Tilden has a chop-stroke which-although he does not often use it-is fully the equal of Johnson's; true also that he is equipped with a drive, service, volley, far superior to his opponent's. These things could not have prevented the unexpected from happening-had other causes made the unexpected inevitable. Since...
...make it plain, the student will go into the course with eyes open and derive a great amount of benefit from it. The text book of the course is Professor Taussig's two-volume work of the same name, and no other. As a result there is a great deal of economics which the student need not know, but he must know that part of the subject contained in the book. When he finishes the course he will have a satisfying feeling of having acquired something and of having worked hard to get it. No attempt is made to amuse...