Word: doubtedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inference to be drawn from such strange researches is, that if President Coolidge is still in doubt about 1928, he should consult no crystal balls, no mystics, no political prophets, no embattled farmers?but he should go straight to the office of Professor Charles F. Marvin, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who is the last word on rain, snow, sleet, hurricane, cloudburst, earthquake.? Mr. Marvin could tell the President that the rainfall for 1925 was 13% less than normal and 1926 was 1% drier than normal. Unless the rain gods decree a pretty pattering on the window...
...Davidson's statue shows the influence of "The Covered Wagon" motif and hence will no doubt be popular in the balloting. His tall spare woman leans forward as she scrutinizes the prairie horizon for her Dan'l, who is probably delayed during a storm at Faro Pete's Saloon. The character might well be stolen from Fannie Hurst. She is not so vivid as his famed "Call To Arms" figure which everyone remembers as the woman with her feet planted flat, her arms upraised, mouth wide in battle call to France. Mr. Davidson, born and reared...
...dragons. Forsooth, we do those things better in our day, when on the stage you will find cubistic representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick when he writes,--"Hard squeaking sounds grew out of the distance. A door clanged metallically and an indistinct voice shouted 'Zzzzzzz-- Hall! -- -- -- Had he slept twenty years to find a new city...
...never knew anyone to doubt his personal integrity...
...young Jew referred to is Aaron Sapiro, now 42, a lawyer, and the organizer of farmers' co-operative associations which market $400,000,000 worth of foodstuffs annually. No doubt, Mr. Sapiro has made a tidy profit from these ventures; no doubt, other Jews as well as farmers have shared. But Mr. Sapiro believes that Mr. Ford's magazine has slandered him and hurt his business. Hence, he filed suit in 1925 to collect $1,000,000 from Mr. Ford. Last week that suit went before the U. S. District Court in Detroit. It may last five weeks...