Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infused his government with human sympathy which transcends even tolerance. His mind is fertilized by the concrete event. The impact of specific problems of government leads him to full inquiry, and freedom from obstinate prepossessions, like Mr. Hoover's passionate fear of government ownership, enables him to go wherever understanding and democratic sympathies may require...
...There was an unusually good wheat harvest this year in the Western states and as that always has the effect of making the people satisfied with the existing regime, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma will doubtless vote pretty solidly for Hoover. The far West will go all Hoover, and the far South will probably stay Democratic...
...punishing the young princess for being cruel to him-a means also of exhibiting the soothing power of wickedness upon recalcitrant women. In the last act it appears that the soldier has triumphed upon the lady who insulted him in the first. Though she pleads with him not to go away, he has become arrogant now and leaves her though he loves...
...Strong of N. Y. U. made four touchdowns against Rutgers which in 1915 beat N. Y. U. 73-0. His team mates made three touchdowns more. 48-0 was as far as they could go...
...REASON-Philip Gibbs*-Doubleday Doran ($2.50). As usual, Author Gibbs is out to prove something-this time that a system of philosophy is bound to go on the rocks if it counts God out. There was no room for God in Hesketh's firm belief that some day man would live by Reason; there was no room for religion in the behaviorist upbringing he gave his carefree earthy children. But this omission does not necessarily account for the boy's morbid passion for his youthful stepmother (indeed every man in the book is in love with...