Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Gompers, patriarch of the American Federation of Labor, has long taken the attitude that the Federation is not in politics. That stand is an ideal for which he has waged and won many bitter battles. His belief is that the Federation may justifiably recommend to its members that they vote for given policies and for given candidates on the basis of their records. He holds equally strongly that the Federation is a labor, not a political, body, that its interests would be more hurt than helped if it became identified with any party?even a Labor Party...
...attempt of 1922 and that Mallory and Irvine lost their lives this year, without the prospect of any material gain for either the climbers or the human race, he answered with a question: "Isn't it a goodish thing to run some risks, undergo some hardships for an ideal divorced from sordid considerations...
...twelve years the present hall has been the scene of much musical historymaking. In 1911 the Aeolian Co. bought the West Presbyterian church and pulled it down. Aeolian Hall, then the highest structure in the vicinity, was erected on the spot. Somewhat smaller than Carnegie, it offered ideal stamping-ground for those more intimate, less thunderous artists and bands, whose tiny tunes wandered faintly and dejectedly and sometimes lost their way completely in the vast hollow spaces of the Hippodrome...
...love to see everybody's name in the paper every day. . . . Suppose the telephone directory had a real news item after each name? Wouldn't that make a pretty good newspaper?" So Sallie, heiress, of a town near Chicago, directed a young, sensitive man to build the ideal newspaper. Love and Melodrama interferred. Eventually the young man went to the hospital and Sallie to Europe, but only after they had performed some experiments in journalistic honesty which deserve to become classic...
...were to pick an ideal name for a Democratic Boss* in New York City, how would one go about it? First, one would want something patriotic. George Washington ? Excellent! Then something Irish. Olvany? Nothing better...