Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caption "Relief" appears: 1,200 tons of food 3,490 tons of misc. supplies 10 days provisions for 100,000 people, etc. All to be distributed to the poor devils, victims of the tremendous hurricane in Porto Rico. I can imagine the anxiety of those people expecting that colossal help. It is a donation to that country that my compatriots will never forget. I can see their mouths water - literally speaking, I've been hungry - when they read in big head lines that it was going to be distributed to apease their hunger and calm their anxiety...
...word about psychology may help to make Radcliffe's frustrated longing for things that cannot be a little less hard to bear. The word "complex" is bandied about the critique in astonishing fashion, but it proves a most unfortunate point. Complexes are only to be feared when they are repressed and the healthy airing of these matters is always to be encouraged. It is the people who never speak of so-and-so that probably have so-and-so working in their sub-conscious to a disgraceful extent...
...last library chou-chou, through whose curved muzzle we had been receiving and sending messages to the central reading room thirty miles back of the lines, has been cut off. When I sent my last plea for help, I had to wait thirty minutes for an answer. Various bulletins which I recognized as spurious, came through, carrying such messages in a heavy German hand as? 'Out for two weeks', 'reserved for the Rainbow Division', or 'in bindery'. At last came back my own cylinder. With Edson, our flagbearer, who had been wounded in the head, drooling Beowulf...
...next year, Washington won the pennant but lost the series to the Pittsburgh Pirates. In the season that is just now over Washington did less well. Last week, Clark Griffith, who owns the Washington team. announced that he had "fired" Bucky Harris, but would help him get a job with another team if another team offered him one. Reporters met Bucky Harris coming out of the ball park and asked him for an explanation. "Go up and see Griffith," said Harris. Said Griffith: "The best interests of the club. . . . We are still the best of friends...
About credit, he said only this: "The Federal Reserve can't earmark its credit. But it can help steer the credit ship. People must not expect the impossible...