Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens live, thrive, tend their families, amuse themselves, go insane, was a study President Hoover last week assigned to another new commission-The Research Committee on Social Trends-financed by the Rockefeller Foundation...
...Joseph he was known as a retired businessman, an obliging fellow who visited sick neighbors and courted the esteem of established citizens. One neighbor recalled that "Dane" once borrowed a shotgun from him to go rabbit hunting...
...individual cooperatives, adding "a small additional charge," presumably 2% or 3%. In effect the cooperatives would be paying the same rate-6%-as private commission men for cash. Chairman Legge carefully explained that whatever profit the national cooperative made from the additional interest imposed would in the end go back to the local cooperatives as members of the national body. To many a husbandman this seemed a long and risky way round to the "cheap money" he had been promised...
...morning I was summoned to go to Clemenceau's home," said she in Paris, "I was warned above all not to put rouge on my lips, and not to wear high-heeled shoes. 'Clemenceau has a horror of all those things in women,' I was told. Moreover, I had to use a goose quill pen, because the Tiger always hated the grating of steel pens. I consented to sacrifice these feminine vanities, and went not without trembling to the door of this 'terror of ministers,' this irascible enemy of governments...
Graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1887, Professor Olmsted began teaching at St. Mark's. In 1897 he left to go to what was then called Peck's School, a sparse collection of school buildings on a hill a mile south of Pomfret, Conn. Within three decades he fashioned it into an orderly T-shaped array of modern Colonial dormitories and classrooms, looking confidently across wide, well kept grounds. He gathered an able faculty, capable of educating educables as well as any of the famed New England schools...