Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drove of little elephants ornaments Mr. Good's personal office−on inkstand, bookends, paperweights His complexion remains that of a hard indoor worker. It has been organization and politics with him all summer, with only a few games of golf mixed in even on Sundays. When he does get off he goes to the Glen View Club, oldtime haunt of the late Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the Harding campaign...
What may someday be remembered as "Briand's Schweinehund Speech" was delivered last week before the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva. The presence of the Assembly was immaterial. Briand was talking straight to World Public Opinion, defending himself, France and the Allies, thrusting hard at a certain German and at Germany...
...course hard-boiled men in barracks do rollick and bellow, especially at the Sovereign and the Empire they love. But Victoria, no Hard-Boiled Queen, missed the too-blunt point and was irrevocably insulted...
...Wilfrid Valentine, professor of education at the University of Birmingham, to say that the best brains of the U. S. are attracted to business and the second and third best to the professions. But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England. He wants English young men to study for business. Present British industrialists he holds in contempt. Many lack wits enough to be army corporals, he exaggerated, exasperated...
...error. Saltman Fuller has no salt water system in his home. He has a device, however, for softening hard water...