Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This extravagant denouement to the Pilsudski revolution (TIME, May 24 et seq.) followed Marshal Pilsudski's refusal of the presidency, to which Parliament elected him (TIME, June 7), and his curt intimation to the astonished Deputies that they had best elect "honest Ignatz Moscicki," heretofore a total political nobody, but an intimate of Pilsudski...
Assiduous campaigning against this superstition by the Japanese Women's League is reported to have been almost without avail among the more ignorant classes. Among even the socially elect, engagements are frequently broken if the youth discovers his fiancée to have a Hinuma taint...
...Evening Post-the oldest and the smallest (in, circulation) newspaper of the Metropolis. Doubtless the salary is appropriate to the post-a post which has been filled by such famed editors as Alexander Hamilton, William Cullen Bryant, I Carl Schurz, E. L. Godkin, Horace White, Rollo Ogden. Said Editor-elect Mason: "I believe the property [newspaper] has an assured future...
...course fully in favor of farm relief. His supporters argue for him that he is the one possible compromise nominee?that if Cummins or Brookhart were nominated, the embittered supporters of the other would turn to the Democratic nominee, with the possibility that the Republican state of Iowa would elect a second Democratic Senator. But in proportion as the partisanship between Brookhart and Cummins increases, the likelihood of Iowa's turning to an innocent bystander, however well thought of, decreases...
With R. McK Henry '24, captain elect of the 1924 crew, this committee turned toward the West for a coach after the type of the men who had brought the Washington eights into such prominence at the Poughkeepsie regatta. After a wide search, Stevens was finally selected. Although he did not have any previous coaching experience, Mr. Stevens rowed in the Cornell varsity shell to two years in 1908 and 1909 and had achieved considerable reputation as a single sculler