Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Retinue. Persons who consider Candidate Smith unfit for the Presidency on the ground that his entourage would disgrace the White House are mostly persons unacquainted with what a White House entourage is like or with those whom Candidate Smith would take with him. Persons familiar with his presidential frame of mind predict that he would content himself with no small-calibre men, certainly no Tammany favorites, for Cabinet positions. Of his oldtime personal retainers, only three seem indispensable...
...listed in the Social Register; three of them were: George McAneny (architecture), Frank Presbrey (advertising) and Whitney Warren (architecture). The chairman of the board of directors is perhaps the most socially elect among their number. He is Robert Walton Goelet, who belongs to 19 clubs and who owns the ground upon which the Manhattan Ritz is built. It seems somehow typical of Cesar Ritz's enterprise that even the earth upon which his pompous monuments are raised should be hallowed by socially correct ownership...
...Griggs's final assault states that the colleges make capable students "do time" by retaining for four years the man who has covered the ground in two; and especially, that teachers who have completed all the required work are obliged to "serve a jail sentence to get the M.A. and then the Ph.D. degrees." But the four-year requirement is not inflexible. At Harvard alone a fairly large number of candidates receive their degrees in three or three and one-half years; and if any of Dr. Griggs's two-year men should ever come to the University, they...
...Paris. They flew, over the dreamy provinces of France, toward a last great city. There, in the late afternoon, a huge crowd was waiting for them. Their plane drifted to the field at Le Bourget, a weary metal bird, singing a slow song. The wheels rolled over the ground quickly, then slowly. The wheels stopped, the propeller stopped its slow spinning, and the two men got out of their airplane. Both of them were smiling. "Costes!'' yelled the people in the crowd. "Lebrix . . . Lebrix. . . ." Then they ran and lifted the men on their shoulders and carried them...
...that a college education is an advantage to a business man. His arguments are directed to an end more cogent for the undergraduate, for he makes a definite answer to the question whether scholastic aptitude is an asset in non-professional work. He believes that it is, on the ground that it has been found to be so in some thousands of cases. His findings, however, it valid, undoubtedly put a premium on good work at college. To be sure the man who has the ability to do well but does not use it at college will not lose...