Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer to this question is to be found in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and a hundred other memorial speeches. It stands out so clearly that it is overlooked while exploring in obscure corners. At intervals men need rededication to the better; finer, more courageous elements in life and long experience has shown that formal, public expression of tribute to men who have stood outstandingly for these things is a psychologically sound means to that end. Those of us who have, in the preparation of this memorial issue, studied Eliot's life and work, and thus indirectly gained contact with them...
...they poured their wine, he poured his pearls on the table, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. He taught them beauty in gems and they bought for their women. Some began to buy for investment, for he proved how the values of precious stones mount. His son Michael had even a finer genius for matching jewels. Mrs. McKinley, wife of the one time President, loved to come to their store. She would be dressed in a slim-waisted jacket, with leg-of-mutton sleeves, an amiable gentlewoman whom Michael adored. One day she gave him a carnation. He wanted...
...that Mr. Jim Tully has out-lined the finer points of vagrancy and Mr. Vachel Lindsay is reviving the custom of wandering poets, the National Association of Hoboes, meeting in convention at Omaha, has come to the realization that its members are gradually being admitted into the fellowship of respectable citizens. In order to separate the sheep from the goats it announces a difference between the hobo and the lowly bum, defining the former as "merely a migratory worker who travels to participate in construction work and to help with the harvests": a bum, on the other hand...
...There is no finer record of high character and patriotic devotion, of unselfish service and of a spirit unquenched and majestic in death than that of Nathan Hale. . . . The hero's story should be taught to every child in our schools...
...Rosenthal's Manhattan attorney Alfred Lind said in a letter to Secretary of State Kellogg last week: "Mr. Rosenthal's life was worth far more than any ransom which would have been demanded. In all our broad land there could not be found a finer type of American citizen...