Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five years the farm-threat has hung dagger-like above the Republican party. But so impotent has been the Democratic party that the farmers have never let the dagger drop except to prick here and there a political life. For three and one-half years, President Coolidge has unequivocally opposed every farm bill which the farm bloc desired. And, while he has not signed any of the bills which the farm bloc did not want, he has never offered any plan of relief. He has confined himself to advising farmers to cooperate on their own initiative. Hitherto, the President...
...same joy is experienced by the woman at a church social whose seamstress has told her just why Mrs. Jiggetywig left her husband; or by the male dinner guest in Sedalia, Mo., who took his vacation under the auspices of Thos. Cook & Son. These, to squeeze the last drop of bliss from omniscience, will hint: "Ask me another!" Two youths lately turned out by that small incubator of great men, Amherst College, have entered this fertile vale of psychology and in it, after proper experiment, planted a book.* Before publishing they went calling. They called on President William Allan Neilson...
...Brother (Harold Lloyd). Great dark houses crashed and rocked with laughter last week. Funnyman Lloyd is loose again. Before permitting himself to be released Mr. Lloyd always examines his gag staff* to be sure no drop of marrow lingers in their funny-bones. He asks the continuity men if they have achieved the highest possible pitch of acceleration. The result is houses that crash and rock. Mr. Lloyd remains original, rapid, hysterogenic. This time he is Harold Hickory, rabbitty member of a bearish backwoods sheriff's family. He outwits his lumbering brothers and a traveling band of medicine fakers; outflirts...
...tests for fitness now employed by the Yale examiners give a reasonably secure basis for selection. About eight men in a hundred drop out of college during Freshman year by reason of poor scholarship. A considerable proportion of these failures is due to financial or other hardship and not to incapacity. In Yale College, the wastage for all causes for the whole period covered by the Alumni Directory is but 12.9 per cent through the year 1917, and but 16.2 per cent with the war period included...
...today is far from a decided benefit to the situation. Right now, the diplomatic thing for Princeton and Harvard to do is to politely ignore the charges that so indiscreet a person has impolitely made. Newspapers might show better judgement than they have and also let the matter quietly drop. As to why "Liberty" printed the article, there is but one conclusion...