Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more important theatre, for it is the high peak of an avenue of art that radiates over the whole world, while opera is a narrow, limited, circumscribed old patch, like one of the Balkan States-it's great .to write about and lie about but it doesn't affect anything much...
...news, between one sensational enterprise and the next. If he seriously settles down to decide the fate of nations or debate the tariff question no one ever hears of it. And as for reading the newspapers--if he does he merely learns of his own idiosyncrasies, and if he doesn't, he misses very little. Possibly three or four newspapers repay him for his efforts to find the news with some adequate content. In the rest, he delves between Raymond's advertisements--quite the most amusing feature usually and Zonite, to discover at last that the Yale sophomores have presented...
...President stated that the Administration " had definitely and decisively put aside all thought of entering the League of Nations. It doesn't propose to enter now by the side door, the back door or the cellar door. . . . the Senate has so declared, the Executive has so declared and the people themselves have so declared...
...Hoover's right hand is Julius Klein. Klein knows South America, which is the only continent Mr. Hoover doesn't know. Together they have transformed Commerce Reports into a valuable weekly which 5,000,000 men can read. Mr. Hoover himself is responsible for the monthly Survey of Current Business...
...present age, however, is not apt to recognize the validity of curses. Mr. Edward P. Gaston of Chicago, at any rate, doesn't care what the religious have to say. He intends to dig up the skeleton of Pocahontas, the tender-hearted Indian girl, of whom he claims to be a direct descendant. He has already gone so far as to disinter more than a hundred skeletons, and to measure their skulls in the hope of being able to recognize his Indian ancestress. Of these skulls he has selected three or four for future reference, while Canon E. Lionel Gedge...