Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radiate more sunshine to our fellow men and scatter with a spendthrift hand the seeds of kindness and charity...
...whose driver shrilly squawked his little bulb horn whizzed up to the door. Out stepped the returning U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime husband of the late Lillian Russell. Mr. Moore was welcomed with acclaim. From his native Pittsburgh to Madrid he is known as a good fellow cast in the Gargantuan mold...
Connoisseurs of philanthropy recalled Mr. Carnegie's often expressed reasons for creating his Hero Fund: "I believe that it take-much more heroism to save life than to take it. ... Unfortunately most of the monuments of the world are to somebody who has killed a lot of his fellow men. . . . I do not expect to create a race of heroes by offering prizes. I know well that the heroic action is impulsive. . . . But I have all along felt that heroes and their dependents should be freed from pecuniary cares resulting from their heroism." Observers noted that no pecuniary cares have...
...Americans are bad losers. They have had control of too many raw products like wheat, oil, cotton and tobacco to take it coolly when the other fellow happens to get something they haven't got." As a matter of fact if the U. S. could apply to farm produce something like the scheme the British are using with rubber, our farm difficulties would be solved.* Both the British and the Democrats in Congress pointed to the U. S. high tariff as an instance of a similar policy of protection to native industries...
...obstructionist tactics. Fiery Scotch Laborite Neil Maclean at one time attempted to "rise to a point of order" without observing the technical formality of putting on his hat and sitting down, which must legally accompany such parliamentary "rising." Having no hat within reach Mr. Maclean was nonplused until a fellow member hastily improvised a paper cockade out of a copy of the Times and clapped it on his head. Thenceforward the "ginger group" of the Labor Party harassed the Government at every turn, until Premier Baldwin at length forced the matter to a vote. Then the Laborites...