Word: detachedness
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The others, likewise saying little, doing much, are in the order of their appointment: Oliver Wendell Holmes, 85, of Massachusetts-"a poetic turn of expression and a liberal cast of thought." Willis Van Devanter, 67, of Wyoming-"a student not impractical, a scholar not pedantic." James Clark McReynolds, 64, of...
It is planned to have Straus as a social center for the two halls that are nearest to it, Massachusetts and Matthews, neither of which have common rooms, and with this in view, a large room, situated in the middle of Straus and having an outside entrance detached form the...
New Orleans, in hot August, was threatened with a streetcar strike. Workers and operators were deadlocked over a minor absurdity. The strike order was posted. City officials gnawed their lips and wondered warily how a tie-up would affect their political credit. Newspapers printed bulletins and pleaded editorially for a...
¶ The President greeted cordially Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, the first , overnight guest at White Pine Camp. (Senator Fess was the second). Mr. Davis and his host strolled about the grounds, then ambled down to Lake Osgood to inspect rods and lines and to practice casting. They discussed...
The good people of a town the size of Canton are usually conscious of corruption on only two planes-the dismayingly magnified obscenities of their own local government, and the almost mystical dereliction of national officeholders, such as various members of the late President Harding's cabinet. But statues...