Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...borrowed a safety pin, fastened the hem of my skirt between my knees, put a cushion on the floor, shot my legs into the air, remained poised for a moment. Said I: 'There, you try that every day, and you won't have lumbago or heart trouble.' . . . And only a fortnight ago, I read in the papers that I had 'unmistakably' kicked my husband in the shins while he was escorting the President and Mrs. Coolidge at a charity ball last December. That was slow newsgathering, I think...
...born a Greek, has been said to have been the victim of a mal de siecle, and the four undergraduates in question, who probably had at least equally valid reasons for departing this life, must be found to have died from a social cancer that is eating the heart out of our civilization...
...Princetonian, on the other hand, part of whose comment is reprinted in another column, places the blame upon "under-education." This criticism strikes much nearer to the heart of the matter. Rendering unity out of chaos is a salutary process for the individual, and a necessary operation for the educational institution. It is hardly to be denied that the synthesis of life of which the Princetonian speaks is too often submerged under the mass of analytic facts and information with which education is today encumbered. It is a situation which has been recognized increasingly in recent years. The "civilizational" education...
...Mexicans know is Washington patois for "President Coolidge," spoke. He said something to the general effect that there had been a complete misunderstanding of the Administration's attitude toward Mexico. The President, it seemed, had turned once with the Secretary to the extent of experiencing a change of heart about Bolshevism in Mexico which was now beside the point instead of being the point. But President Coolidge had not turned with Mr. Kellogg to the extent of wanting to arbitrate. Mr. Kellogg must thus turn once again and stand with the President against arbitration. A silence at the State...
...ingratitude," "Nifty" is on the point of deserting the show when he sees the substitute barker flopping about in a feeble exhortation before an unresponsive crowd. Then, like Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt of What Price Glory, "Nifty" rushes onto the platform to discharge a duty too near his heart to be abandoned even by galled ambition. Thereafter the ballyhoo goes on as before...