Word: goode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throughout Lorenzo the Magnificent: Lorenzo "was perhaps a coward, a man of no principles and very little honor, inconstant, an opportunist, frivolous, and Epicurean. But he was neither brute nor a fanatical hypocrite nor a lecherous beast. ... All he wanted was peace . . . the good things of this world, wealth, and fun and art and love and learning." CYRANO-Cameron Rogers-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON-Dmitri Merezhkovsky-Dutton ($3). THE PHANTOM EMPEROR: THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF NAPOLEON III- Octave Aubry-Harper ($2.50). Many U. S. citizens go to Europe. Few know any history except the Anglo-American...
...arguments, "ran errands." His assistance to Senator Bingham, who pleaded ignorance of Connecticut's industrial needs, was "invaluable." No Senator except Bing ham knew that Eyanson was the hired man of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association, which praised his work as "splendid" and assured him that he had "made good" and given the association "more than we ever bargained for." Employment of Eyanson by Senator Bingham produced financial complications. As the manufacturers' agent. Lobbyist Eyanson was continuously paid by them his salary ($10,000 per year). As a Senate clerk he also signed the U. S. payroll and drew...
Fuming against what he considered the "discourteous treatment" he was receiving from the committee, Senator Bingham defended Eyanson as a "good teacher," denied that he actually lobbied, made much of the technicality that he had not personally cashed his Senate pay checks. In the end, though, Senator Bingham was concerned into the admission that: "I probably made a mistake." He stepped from the stand a very wilted and word-bruised Senator. His colleagues, however, had scant sympathy for him. He has never been a popular member of the Senate because he attempts to manage debate in the same wise-teacher...
...quis custodiet ipsos custodes? To keep the official keepers of the law within the law they keep, the National Commission on Law Enforcement last week reached out and drew into its service as expert investigators two good lawyers- Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. of the Harvard Law School and Walter H. Pollak, Manhattan attorney. Their assignment: to upturn all possible facts for the Commission's subcommittee on "Lawlessness of governmental law enforcing officers." Libertarians were heartened by the appointment of Professor Chafee for they knew him of old as a thoroughgoing liberal who in the past has had no patience...
...others begun at the turn of the century. At the Meeting House, Brown under graduates heard Harvard's Lowell, the principal speaker, observe that the college problem lies "in part in eliminating those who are unable or unwilling to make the effort and make it fruitfully." All good Brown men were proud to hear President Barbour modestly proclaim: "Brown yields to her sisters only: Harvard, William & Mary, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Columbia...