Word: go-between
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...Lowell was caught brawling in New York speakeasies (TIME, June 15), how Dry Senator Heflin suffered when his son Tom Tom Jr. misbehaved with liquor (TIME, July 1, Sept. 16, 1929, Oct. 27, 1930), how Vice President Curtis' son Harry had embarrassed his father by setting up as a go-between for public building contracts (TIME, June...
...Department of Economics, the Committee on Social Ethics and Sociology, and of President Lowell and Dean Moore," Professor P. A. Sorokin of the sociology department said yesterday in an interview. "My personal role in its creation has been a very modest one, and I have been a mere "go-between, and no more." Taking into account, he explained, that this is the first year that courses have been given formally under the name of sociology, our expectations have been far exceeded in that as many as 60 students have enrolled for concentration...
...break there have been other meetings between Harvard and Princeton on the invitation of a third party. At Derby and on the Schuylkill 150-pound crews representing Nassau and Cambridge have raced. Yet every attempt on the part of Harvard and Princeton crew men to resume relations without a go-between has met defeat. Among the oarsmen this mutual desire to meet has been strong each spring, perhaps stronger than in the case of any other major sport teams. Minor sport teams also competed, but always at the instigation of an outsider...
...wined and wenched till late at night, but always rose betimes for his full-scheduled, boring days. When he saw 16-year-old Marie Vetsera at the theatre he liked her, but nothing might have come of it had it not been for his scheming cousin who acted as go-between. Marie and the Prince soon adored each other; he thought of a morganatic union. But when he foolishly sought the Pope's assistance in annulling his marriage, the Emperor heard of it and made him promise to see Marie only once again. Rudolph kept his word. Author Claude...
...Secretary Wilbur, Representative Swing wrote: "Congress intended that the people should get the benefit of this great public resource, through their own agencies, direct and at cost, without the necessity of paying a commission to a go-between, that is, profits to a private power corporation...