Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro delegates were to be lodged and what "stunts" the parade should perform and how the convention hall should be decorated, they had a delicate question to answer. What Republican, they had to ask themselves, was best qualified to be Temporary Chairman in June? The traditional, and the sole function of a Temporary Chairman is to make a keynote speech which shall put all factions in a happy frame of mind, inspire the country and prelude Victory...
...explanation" the author, a smooth-faced banker of the Wall Street house of Lehman Bros., confesses: "I have not proven prosperity, though I think others have. . . . You will discover among other things that I believe in exaggeration in advertising; and since a title has largely an advertising function to fulfill, I believe there is some justification in my exaggerated title...
...with officers of the law, and the wicked tinkle of best glasses accompanied the loose music of a brothel piano. Beneath the revelry a vigilant Justice brooded; for Sergeant Mack and his men, though drinking and disorderly were on duty bent. They were present only because it was their function to find out who had shot Tom McGuire, a well known mining boss, depositing his corpse in the alley back of Swede Cora's place...
...function of the Deputations, Committee is two-fold: first, contacts are made with different agencies such as churches, schools and Y. M. C. A.'s, and a schedule of trips is drawn up for the year; second, representative men in college are made acquainted with the work and opportunity is given for them to take part. Friendship is the basis of these trips, but in addition there is a view to stimulating an interest in college, all around development, and Christian living...
...Shooting the chutes, riding on the scenic railway and going to the daisy-doser in the amusement park supply the necessary prods to children. The modern newspaper performs this function for the adult of higher mental level. . . . We cannot possibly attend all the murders, fires, earthquakes, unsuccessful trans-atlantic flights and other occurrences of the kind in person. The modern newspaper does this for us and thus saves our consciousness from 'innocuous desuetude...