Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alternated between tantrums and protestations of undying love. "The worst of me is in my tongue," she reassured him, but once she kicked him in the head. He discovered strong homosexual tendencies in her. Both tried to be broadminded. ("Have a sweet time with Amy, who will do you good," said Edith.) They quarreled, made up, took extended vacations from each other, wrote passionate letters back & forth long after they had ceased to live together as man & wife. At last, ill, frenzied, half-insane, Edith demanded a separation, accused him of trying to put her in an asylum. When...
...fact, Taft was too scrupulous for his own good. In his private letters he said the things he should have said in public. He was almost smug about refusing to use his patronage powers to bring Congressmen into line. He outmaneuvered the silken Senator Nelson Aldrich on the tariff, forced substantial cuts, then watched the whole country go hog-wild over a headline which twisted a few forthright words in one of his speeches. The muckrakers were abroad in the land and Taft lacked T. R.'s flair for handling them. The great "scandal" of his administration...
Waite Phillips is a jut-jawed, beetle-browed Oklahoma oiligarch who likes portmanteau words based on his name. Such are the Philturn Rockymountain Scoutcamp ("Phillips" riveted to "good turn"), Philmont (his 300,000-acre New Mexico ranch), Philtower and Philcade (his skyscrapers at Tulsa). Oiligarch Phillips last week did a good turn at Tulsa, where the Philbrook Art Center was opened. Its aim: to make culture gush in an oil town once called (by Harper's Magazine) a "cultural Sahara...
Fourth among the six candidates who were nominated in primaries, Carr stands a very good chance of winning one of the three seats on the school committee, observers agreed yesterday. He has organized an extensive campaign, squeezing in between his soccer practice and his Boston law practice six or seven rallies an evening and many door to door canvasses...
Last Thursday, Harvard undergraduates held their second football rally in fourteen years. They did it because they wanted to show their faith in their team and its coaches, because they were sure that Harvard had a team with enough ability and spirit to put up a good battle against even so favored a foe as Princeton. This faith has been fulfilled, for Saturday's game was a closely-fought contest, with both teams showing a heads-up brand of play. The team and coaches showed not only that they can rise above criticism, but that they can justify the confidence...