Word: either
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affair. The more foolish say that fighting is a natural instinct. But that the permanent peace which the world must have and the strong nationalism which has universal dominion over the human imagination are in complete opposition to one another and that one of them must be abandoned, diplomats either do not see or else do not care...
...Lawyer Hogan as follows on the Fall-Sinclair-Doheny business in general: " . . . the country is aflame with righteous indignation at the nasty, sordid revelations both as regards the oil leases and the jury-tampering, and will not be satisfied with halfway measures. The public demands that all involved in either the oil scandal, now four years old, and the jury-shadowing, be sentenced to jail, and that no guilty man be permitted to escape...
MONEY WRITES!-Upton Sinclair-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Once again fuming, foaming Upton Sinclair girds himself beyond all reason, leaps on his lame but willing steed, and (like Stephen Leacock's famed knight) rides off in all directions. According to Upton, the successful writers of today write either consciously or unconsciously for the benefit of nasty Wall Street. Most of Money Writes! is devoted to a mildly interesting, not very convincing attempt to prove this theory. One by one Joseph Herges-heimer, Gertrude Atherton, et al., are pointed at with the finger of scorn and it is all pretty...
...those writing in Latin a translation into that language of a portion of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is required. A prize of $50 for the best of each of these translations will be awarded. Holders of degrees must write an original essay in either Latin or Greek on any subject chosen by the competitor. The best essay will receive...
...since "Merry Merry" has there been such intelligent musical show--and both entertainments prove ably that dumbness and stupidity are not necessarily essential to the song-and-dance carnival. "Peggy Ann" is even satirical and slightly acid in places but don't let that bother you; you can either--take it or leave it alone. It has a story--and what a story. It seems there was this little girl from Glens Falls. At the end of the first scene she falls asleep and everything goes black. From that point on there is rhyme but no reason to her adventures...