Word: handiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago's police adopted the handiest explanation: the Moran gang had avenged the St. Valentine's Day massacre. The Spooner's Nook find brought the number of Chicago underworldlings who have met violent death this year to 20, an all-time high for the first five months of any year...
...filled. They pictured themselves and their families destitute. Through officials they appealed to Premier W. L. MacKenzie King of Canada. Thus came to Vincent L. Massey, Canada's first minister to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 22), his first truly knotty assignment in Canadian-U. S. relations. The handiest solution that he might urge would be to have foreign-born Canadian commuters classed specially as nonquota immigrants, a distinction reserved hitherto for important foreign personages...
...gates; from the Harvard-manned if not Harvardized World rather than from, say, the New York Herald Tribune, whereof the dominant figure is, of course, Owner-Editor Ogden Mills Reid, Yale '04 (and a vigorous alumnus, especially in everything appertaining to water polo), one of whose right-handiest men is City Editor Robert Cresswell, famed Princetonian ('19) ; or from some underling of disaffected and disapproved Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Harvard student from...
...Claremont, Calif., hard by Los Angeles, another Oxford rises. Oxford, at least, is the handiest comparison, for Oxford is a group of autonomous colleges, individually staffed, housed and administered, under a university seal that indicates their federation into a community of learning in which only major facilities, basic policies and an enveloping tradition are held in common...
Strangely enough, when the Old Guard turned on Mr. Butler and picked the handiest candidate for the Vice Presidency?General Dawes?it did not greatly alter the busino-political spirit of the ticket. Dawes differs greatly from the Coolidge type: the Republican candidates may well be dubbed "Cautious Cal and Charging Charlie." Yet Mr. Dawes does not fly the flag of politics above the pennants of all other considerations. His very vigor is a challenge to the pure-political school of leaders...