Word: humanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bigger job than I should suppose he would have had the temerity to undertake in the closing months of a strenuous term of the President of the world's greatest nation. I'd like the low down on this. Ray Long in his leading editorial "A Fine Human Document" quotes Mr. Coolidge as saying to him: "Whenever a problem comes before me the first thing I say to myself is, 'Isn't there someone who can do that as well as I can?' and you would be surprised how often I find someone else...
...pestiferousness of such agents- porch-climbers, telephoners, buttonholers. classmates-may soon become a matter for the attention of Citizen Calvin Coolidge. Last week he accepted nomination to New York Life Insurance Co.'s board of directors and assignment to the agency committee where he will specialize in "human contacts." His formal election will occur in May. Twenty-eight years ago this same company considered Mr. Coolidge a doubtful risk and hesitated to issue him a $3,000 policy because he was 19 lbs. underweight...
Without The Little French Girl's taut loveliness, without the strange fascination of The Old Countess, Dark Hester is acute portrayal of delicately balanced human relationships, done into tight infallible prose...
Said one male: "It is notorious that women are weak in teaching subjects like mathematics or science, from which human interest is absent. Men alone can attune their minds to the minds of boys...
...whopper-publishers sent forth The Cradle of the Deep as "autobiography" -truth, human document, veracious account of the author's first 17 years as a child of the sea aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, the Minnie A. Caine, copra trader in the South Seas. The chaste and conservative Book-of-the-Month Club offered it to its 80,000 readers. The publishers offered it to the general public. Sales reached...