Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popular way to look at politicians is as the knaves of the human deck. But Frederick L. Collins, veteran journalist, has gone out and captured 14 of them in the gubernatorial stage and labeled them Our American Kings. Mr. Collins isn't a Lytton Strachey, but he doesn't aim to be. He went to take notes on the personalities and home life of Governors in their official habitats and he did so with good-natured appreciation...
...Preus of Minnesota. "But Jake doesn't laugh at politics. He takes it as seriously as most people take mah jong; and he plays the game day and night. 'He's the best d? officeholder in the world,' one of his political opponents told me. He never leaves his desk until everything is cleaned up and in good shape. Then he'll go out and address 40 million picnics, and arrive at every one on time. When it comes to political meetings, Jake's a regular Paul Revere...
Thus Candidate White. The title doesn't come easily?he has been Editor White so very long. As an editor of a local newspaper, he has made himself a national reputation just by being straightforward, unaffected and hard-hitting. Because of it, the Red Cross sent him to Europe as an observer during the War. Because of it, he was chosen to sit on the jury which awarded Edward W. Bok's peace prize. Because of it, a score of other things have fallen his way. He was in the Roosevelt Progressive Movement from 1912 to 1916, but nominally...
...Kismet and Advice" too there is something genial in the bantering tone, something genuine, however unsound, in the philosophy. After all it is the function of the Advocate to express undergraduate ideas rather than to rival professional magazines. That is excuse enough for the very patronizing book review. It doesn't excuse, however, such unintelligible verse as the Sonnet. One always hesitates to confess missing the point of a poem obviously subtle for fear that like the folk in the fable one isn't worthy of his office if he fails to see the magic garment of the king...
...Hale that there had been "a wonderful turnout" at Washington, that President Coolidge had reviewed. Said he: "Just one word more before I terminate my active service at 12 o'clock tomorrow. I don't know anybody who wants to turn the hands of the clock back and it doesn't make much difference...