Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge thought the situation serious enough to give his own interpretation of the causes which forced the reduction in wages. He listed: 1) overexpansion of the woolen industry during the War, so that now, with Southern mills producing the coarser fabrics, and the finer ones being imported from abroad, the New England mills are in difficulties; 2) a change in fashions that made worsteds unpopular during the past season...
...might add that he should not be expected to turn all his geese into swans; but he should care tenderly for his geese and develop all the finer qualities of their geesehood...
Many magazines of truly doubtful character have insulted the finer sensibilities of the public for years without any year of suppression. Art magazines that no artist reads, glorifications of American womanhood that no lady buys. French indencies printed especially for exportation have openly proclaimed their attractions from every corner newsstand. Still the liberal and inoffensive satire of the Lampoon meets with stern suppression. The whole affair is an unwarranted abuse of the police power based upon a fine technicality...
...what I like best in my father is that he appeals to the intellect and is scornful of appeals to emotions alone. At times, he may have appealed to the emotions, but back of the appeal has been a motive finer and deeper than mere theatrical appeal. I have seen him talk to farmers and workingmen on a dull subject like the tariff, and he can make the tariff question so dramatic that he will carry his audience along until he works up to the climax...
...good play is like a visit to the seashore. It takes John Jones out of himself while he cries and laughs at 'Cyrano de Bergerac', and it leaves him a finer man. His soul is purged and life does not seem quite so mean as it did before. His warped mental vista has been straightened...