Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention last year. Lawyer, farmer, banker, son of a Kentucky clergyman (Protestant), strong of mind, bold of speech, he will now take prominent place on the political battlements of the capital. Briefly, his duty will be to eye the Hoover administration; to look for, mark, proclaim its errors; to direct against it the archery of partisan criticism until next election. Chairman Raskob prepared to withdraw into the Democracy's inner keep, there to plot great political stratagems for the future, out of the public eye. Said he firmly: "I have no intention of resigning...
...acrobat but sprained his ankle. Later he made three francs an evening imitating famed singers in the Casino des Tourelles. He danced with Mistinguette at the Folies-Bergere, went to war, escaped from a German prison camp to get back to the Folies. Ernst Lubitsch (the Patriot) will direct him in an operetta...
...dual combat of this sort several times since the severance of athletic relations. Harvard and Princeton debating teams have also come together on more than one occasion, and athletic events where the two colleges, along with others, have competed are numerous. The excuse for all these seemingly direct cases of intercourse between the two universities, officially separated, has always been found in the more than dual nature of the competitions. The golf matches have been part of a league schedule; crews have matched strokes in triangular regattas; polo teams have met in the race for intercollegiate honors...
...would be simple-minded to assume that a newspaper is independent simply because it is free of direct financial connection with such private interests. Even when a newspaper is independent of power companies, public utilities, advertisers and the like, it has achieved only the preliminaries of freedom. There remains the vague but vast force of personal and social and official influences against which really independent newspapers have to be continually on guard. It is here that the representative American newspapers, on the whole the most independent body of newspapers in the world, have day by day to vindicate their independence...
...with no little satisfaction that one learns that the University intends itself to compensate the losses potentially undergone by the grantees of the fund. There need be as yet no timbrels and harps resounding for the recovery of the personal element in mechanically-directed Harvard; still, the employment of some of the famed $100,000,000 in this very direct way is pleasing. Though there continues to be discussion about the salaries of active professors, the policy of the University in regard to its great men of old must be approved...