Word: extras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Situation. The Senate had attached to the Deficiency bill an amendment by Georgia's dry Harris providing the President with an extra $24,000,000 for prohibition enforcement. Secretary Mellon opposed this, because the money did not pass through the Budget; because it only put more agents in the field without increasing the auxiliary branches of enforcement (courts, Coast Guard, Civil Service Commission, etc.); because a survey of needs, he thought, should come first...
...north transept of St. Peter's was screened off. Brussels carpets covered extra pews. Primates and Cardinals, Archbishops and mitred Abbots in scarlet and purple robes sat and deliberated. There were strolls in the Borghese gardens and midnight consultations in the overcrowded inns. The youngest delegate was the Archbishop of Baltimore, the late Cardinal Gibbons. The shrewdest was the Archbishop of Westminster, Henry Edward Manning. To his delight he was nicknamed by the other delegates Il Diavolo del Concilio...
Hitherto a student who might have desired to take a modern language in his final year of preparatory school changed instead to a science or a history which would enable him to gain an extra point. With the recent change in regulations the student is not deprived of the continuity of his study of French or German, and high schools are encouraged to give more thorough courses in these languages. Four years of Greek and Latin have always been acceptable for entrance; the change puts the important modern languages on equal basis with the classics...
There will be no cries of outrage on the part of undergraduates in the ears of Mr. Roberts not attempts to out-Herod Herod on the part of the men whose "semi-idiotic obtuseness" he lampoons. The "extra-thick coats of indifference", which he says are a "lot of hooey", will at least protect his victims from the shower of garbage loosed by his glorification of the exception in place of the rule. The only men who will even feel embarrassed are those whom he pictures at luncheon in a prominent undergraduate club--he suggests the "Soup Club"--under such...
...conclusive are these figures to "an American" that, last week, potent H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S. founder-owner of London's first and greatest "department store," promptly ordered extra advertising space in leading English dailies, commenced to "boom" and "sell" the tunnel idea...