Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is one of the best "convalescent" books of the year. It doesn't matter what you're convalescing from, whether it be pneumonia, or mid-year exams, or love, or dean's notices all of us have something to convalesce from this book is your medicine. It should be taken in a semi-reclining posture, preferably before a big open fire, and should be accompanied by a good pipe and a sympathetic roommate who won't be too bored by having an occasional choice passage read aloud...
...Heywood Broun says, those who take most of the pleasure out of cigarette-smoking are those who say it doesn't do any harm. Those who say Harvard isn't irreligious miss the whole point. Nothing is more entertaining than shocking the casual observer or the ignorant outsider, and the well-meaning people who make excuses for "godless Harvard" and try to point out that it really isn't godless at all simply spoil...
...Ford doesn't like McAdoo and doesn't want to see him in the White House. And yet, curiously enough, one of the main purposes each has had in wanting power is the same with both men. Ford thinks the railroads are badly managed and badly operated, and financed more in the interest of the financiers than in the interest of the stockholders or the public. And Ford, thinking this, would like to try his own hand at running the railroad show...
Edith Galt Wilson. " 'She's handsome in a heavy way but her face sags.' . . . Democrats, no doubt, see her comeliness and Republicans note the sag. ... If Mrs. Wilson doesn't exactly speak the Woodrow Wilson language, she at least seems to understand it. ... Have you ever noticed how Mrs. Wilson always managed to draw into the background a little and so give the impression that the President is perceptibly taller, which, of course, is not the case. . . . She was proud to be Mrs. Woodrow Wilson but she didn't want to wear the dome...
...spend great sums in doles. A child can see that; the only trouble has been in the opposition of rich men in the older parties. There is much discontent in England. Your country is so big and there is still land for your people to expand over. It doesn't mean so much to be unemployed here as it does in England...