Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 20 minutes, Demos sat down. It was then that Nominee Hoover made his first, direct reference to Nominee Smith. Said he: "no man could fail to be moved by the reception I have received in the home town of my distinguished opponent." Nominee Hoover announced that he would ignore "the multitude of issues which have already been well canvassed" and discuss home "fundamental principles and ideals." He plunged into a series of generalities such as "the march of progress," "great constructive measures," and "an economic and social system, vastly more intricate and delicately adjusted than ever before...
...directors of that business. Every time a state government goes into business, one or two hundred state senators and legislators become the actual directors of that business. Even if they were supermen and if there were no politics in the United States, no body of such numbers could competently direct commercial activities; for that requires initiative, instant decision and action...
...care whether the government is Democratic or Republican. I do think, however, that Governor Smith's ability to deal with the administrative branch of our government is well proved, and his common sense will make him an effective chief executive. I like his honesty and his direct powerful way of stating things, and I do not like Hoover's reluctance to say where he stands...
Alfred A. Knopf does not sell intoxicating beverages. His doing so might cause him to be clapped into jail. But Alfred A. Knopf tells people how to mix the finest intoxicating beverages that can be mixed. He charges them $3.00 for this information. They can obtain it direct from him or any bookstore. Publisher Knopf's business address is No. 730 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...
...wine with a meal increases the desire for food and improves the nutrition. The wine itself requires no further digestion and is almost the only food product which will be absorbed from the stomach itself without further preparation or delay in its reaching the tissues. Alcohol is not a direct stimulant but acts directly as an antidote to the chronic poisoning of the heart from overindulgence in coffee and tobacco...