Word: detective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom to hire, and why. If he wants an executive or clerk all he has to do is to send his candidates to the office of the Psychological Corporation; they will come back properly labelled, Rumor has it that the new company will make a serious effort to detect signs of average intelligence in seekers after public offices...
Once a Harvard man always a Harvard man. The broader point of view, the mannerisms of speech, indifference of all these are said to mark the Harvard type. But these are characteristics more common to the college, man in general. Would you know how to detect the true Harvard man? Watch him at his meals...
...Warfield gives to Peter Grimm a characterization which is nearly unique among this season's impersonations in its strength and care of detail,--opera glasses can detect no flaws of facial expression. Peter Grimm lives before the audience. Mr. Warfield's supporting cast is a good one, and the problems of lighting and scenery, obviously so vital to the success of a supernatural effect, are adequately solved and well-managed...
...Taft was Mr. Wilson's opponent for the Presidency in 1912; yet in so far as fundamental questions of government are concerned it would be difficult to detect any important differences between Mr. Taft and Mr. Wilson. Mr. Hughes was Mr. Wilson's opponent in 1916, and it would be equally difficult to detect any important differences between Mr. Hughes and Mr. Wilson. They might disagree about this policy or that policy; but in so far as their public utterances of the last three years are an index to their political principles, these differences would be personal rather than partisan...