Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week was: How Wet can the G. O. P. go in its platform and still hold "fair minded" Drys? The answer was necessarily a matter of word-juggling and hairsplitting. Should the iSth Amendment be mentioned by name? Should the party declare for resubmission to the people by the extra-constitutional means of a national referendum? Or should it simply fall back on a noncommittal recital of the standard method of altering the Constitution by Congress and the States? Should some tricky system of conventions, such as Secretary Hyde's "Missouri Compromise," be advocated? Or should a specific reform...
...that he is one of the few orchestra leaders whom radio has not overpopularized. Radio, as a matter of fact, is a little wary of his improvisations. Several times he has been switched quickly off the air for getting profane or slipping in sly remarks about his friends' extra-marital escapades...
...regulations at present are a petty and annoying hinderance to the formation and continuance of friendships which men make with students resident in other Houses. The contacts made in the classroom and in extra-curricular activities most easily ripen into friendship over the iced-tea and the Boston baked beans. The House Plan recognizes that this is true, and throws men together for their meals that they may learn to know one another. The system now in operation, however, in effect limits the influence to the individual Houses, and may, as the House Plan succeeds, result in severing the ties...
...knives sometimes tremble in his hands. He smokes too many cigarettes. This again is not heroic. People are sick and people are poor and other people take care of them. This, too, is stinking and sweaty. And yet in the town shopmen call him "Doc" and slip an extra carton of cigarettes in his box of provisions. In mud time when the Ford slips into a pot hole, a team is hitched on to the front "ax" and the farmer forgets to ask for his three dollars. It really is not very understandable...
...Extra large pigeonholes bear the names of General Electric, R. C. A., N. B. C, Owen D. Young, Edward A. Filene, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., cigarets, oranges, electric lights. Old Dan Beard has had a pigeonhole since Henry Romeike's time. Sir Thomas Lipton was a client until his death, received packing-boxes full of clippings after the last Gold Cup race. Col. Lindbergh was a client of a small agency before his takeoff for Paris. When the bureau sued him for payment last year he declared he had contracted only for the first $35 worth. Harry Kendall Thaw...