Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator-suspect Vare, on the other hand, strutted down the station platform with his nose turned up even higher than usual, ready for business. A newsman asked him where Mr. Vare...
...even a hint of a "Chile incident." Previously, he had been U. S. Minister to Spain (1905-09) and president of George Washington University (1918-21). He is a lawyer. Nine fat volumes have come from his pen; among them, Collier on Bankruptcy, The Trusts, The Law and the Higher...
...course, Edwin Anderson Alderman did not do all these things. But he took the stump, and his voice was sonorous. He asked for higher taxes and hence better schools. He got them, hissed though he was at first. Rockefeller and Rosenwald money began to go to work in the South. . . . And now magazine articlists call Dr. Alderman "the savior of the South...
...been it would no doubt have prevailed over the baser qualities. These would have appeared as they did finally in all their abhorrent reality, and the better part would have been shocked into rejecting them. But Dr. Jekyll was the whole man; with both higher and lower impulses. To the latter he yielded, turning himself for a time into Mr. Hyde, with a sly wink at his own cleverness. He did not, indeed, want to be found out, but had not supposed that he was doing anything very bad until at last he allowed the evil habit to grow...
...rejecting them. But Dr. Jekyll was the whole man; with both higher and lower impulses. To the latter he yielded, turning himself for a time into Mr. Hyde, with a sly wink at his own cleverness. He did not, indeed, want to be found out, but had not supposed that he was doing anything very bad until at last he allowed the evil habit to grow so strong that he could not resist it, and he was a permanent Hyde...