Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaign for the presidency. The General can handle almost anything from a vicious garbage situation in Havana to a strike in Gary, Ind., or a gentleman's Plattsburg. And always he has been more statesman than Tsar. But one thing he cannot do. He cannot explain himself. He cannot express things. He canot touch emotion with winged words. In conversation he is witty, but on the platform he is dull, heavy, too careful of his facts, not sufficiently boisterous. "Do things, but don't boast about them" is his motto. So neither he nor his rich backers (primarily Procter, Ivory...
...November, 1924, were on trial. Nearly half were for extremely radical Republican Brookhart for Senator, nearly half for Democrat Steck. Iowa had counted Brookhart elected, but Steck protested, and the Senate Judiciary Committee began months ago investigation of the pieces of "opaque paper" which collectively were designed to express the sovereign will of the people of Iowa...
...Government House. Vimy was an action successful in its conception, successful because it was brought to fruition by a generous discipline. It was a discipline that was understood, brought to a climax by a united Canadian corps, a corps whose merits and qualities I am at a loss to express in words. It is expressed best in the words of Pope's 'Essay on Man,' when he said...
...today's issue and the rest of which will be published tomorrow. The public is slowly coming to realize that Harvard students are sincerely interested in their job, are consequently studying it in systematic fashion, are strongly inclined against timidity in speaking their minds, think with reasonable perspicacity, and express themselves with a certain amount of perspicuity. It is interesting to note that in the forty-six issues which the CRIMSON published between September 24 and November 21 the date of the Harvard Yale football game; in other words in the papers published during the football season, twenty...
...around the world. Now the organization which he left in charge of his only son, John Mason Cook (died 1899)* arranges such tours with the casualness of a banker cashing a check. A host of other travel agencies have since entered the business, among them: Raymond Whitcomb Co., American Express Co., Frank Tourist Co., F. C. Clark. So too have various steamship lines. Yet none of them has quite caught up with the household fame of Thomas Cook...