Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Here is an illustration given me by a man who ran for mayor in one of the great cities of the country a few years ago. A better man has seldom been nominated anywhere, nor one with higher purposes, greater sincerity, or a finer sense of public service. The fight was a hot one and concededly close. He had for weeks been going about the city speaking nightly in five or six different places. One night about 10 o'clock he found himself in a small hall in which there were about 300 persons. It was not until he reached...
...There is no finer knighthood. In it your noble order stands, resisting all evil counsel, supporting every patriotic cause, following the eternal principle that ' the truth shall make you free...
...have economical pangs at seeing so much copy go into the maw of the presses every day with so little return; so many quickly-jotted ideas that might really be turned into something lasting; so many little quips and literary furbelows that would be worthy to set off a finer dress. It is small wonder that sometimes these pieces are gathered together and swept into a volume, where they may play a sort of public journal to the authors, and buoy up the notorious "sense of accomplishment". Humanly Mr. Morley has every excuse in the world...
During the day he will be reminded of his duties to Harvard and the world, of his opportunities and advantages. He will be exhorted to a finer life, informed that the Spirit of Youth will conquer, that the comradeship of truth and wisdom are his light in the darkness. He will go to his room in the late evening and tell over the same old stories, sleep as stolidly as usual, and go down to Soldiers Field the next afternoon to cheer the baseball team like an ordinary undergraduate. But it will have been a great Class Day, the greatest...
...with good discussions and editorials. They are for the most part aware of modern life, and are better balanced in their outlook on it. Football is a fine thing, no one regrets it, until it comes to usurp the place of other things just as fine and finer...