Word: howelis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Loud then was the outcry within the Republican ranks, loud then the catcalls across the trenches. Brigadier Bingham protested that, sadly ignorant of tariff warfare and needing counsel, he had followed a natural course. Great-bodied Lieutenant-General Watson, nominal chief of all the Republican forces, cried faintly that his...
Far more fashionable nowadays than discovering blots on the scutcheons of heroes is the psychologist practice of explaining, with cool "scientific" detachment, how heroic eccentricities and even genius were conditioned by the physiology of the case.
Many a modern parent is beset by the problem of the daily newspaper. The parent cannot re-edit the newspaper-he must prohibit it for his children, in toto if at all. But classic literature can be edited-although as to how it shall be edited parents violently disagree. Discussion...
Among Harvard men a story is told. One day last year an unobtrusive man was shown into the office of President A. Lawrence Lowell in University Hall. Like a caged lion, the President was pacing back and forth and round and round, hands clasped in back. His visitor seated himself...
Members of the National Association of Life Underwriters, faced by the usual question of how and where to sell, were apparently still groggy from the recent topping of the $100,000,000,000 mark in total life insurance. Titles of addresses were: "The Market for the Second Hundred Billion," "The...