Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour approached when the Senate would say whether or not the Coolidge Era should be crowned by the Kellogg-Briand multilateral treaty-to-renounce-war-as-an-instrument-of-national-policy. As usually happens in the U.S. foreign relations, a group of Senators was seen forming to pass strictures. Their reasons ranged from the super-patriotism of New 'Hampshire's Moses to the wordy scorn of Maryland's Bruce, who called the treaty a "futile gesture" and an "anemic pact" for which he would vote only to move the U.S. closer to the World Court...
With a workable religion, the undergraduate will work, too. He wants to be an instrument, not a receptacle. Harvard's constant attentions to Dr. Fosdick is a tribute to one who would make an instrument of every...
...sounds emitted by, say, the Harvard Square traffic, the musically inclined can obtain a practical exposition of the art by attending the first of the Whiting concerts, to be given at 8.15 o'clock in Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. Mr. Whiting will offer selections on an instrument not often heard nowadays, the harpsichord, and will be accompanied by Miss Collins, soprano, and Mr. Barriere, flute...
Many of the pieces in Innocent Bystanding have appeared in Mr. Sullivan's column in the World and in the New Yorker. He takes a news item, a musical instrument (the zither, for example), an actress, an animal or the income tax and starts telling about it. Suddenly the reader becomes aware that Mr. Sullivan has left the ground and is loping around in a most ridiculous ether...
...Here's a picture It plays twelve records of various sizes, reproduces them perfectly, rejects them when you don't like one, and plays one a dozen times if you like it especially. "All this, in a very neat mahogany cabinet for $365! The former price of such an instrument, and not a very good one at that...