Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with gratified pride that the Yale Seniors had voted Harvard the "next best college," and, in our limited way, we returned the compliment. But that, it turns out, was only the academic half of it. Now the scientific seniors, the Sheff, boys, have held their election and Harvard just isn't in the running. We take back everything good we ever said about New Haven. What can you expect from a class of men who will vote "Business Law", their favorite course, anyhow...
General Charles G. Dawes chose Evanston, Ill., in which to start a new organization" Minute Men of the Constitution." Said General Dawes: "The purpose of this thing is to show these damned politicians and reformers that everyone in this neck of the woods isn't wishywashy enough to fall in line with their dictation. . . . This is a movement for good government...
With plenty of good, old-fashioned fireworks. General Dawes has heralded the forming of "The Minute Men of the Constitution" to "show these damned politicians and reformers that everyone in this neck of the woods isn't wishy-washy enough to fall in line with their dictation." The chief significance of this remark lies, of course, in his reference; to Chicago as "this neck of the woods." The spirit of the new outfit is most commendable. "We're going to out some stards into the backbone of the individual, and take a whack at the dictatorship of its political blue...
...Pinney and his immediate family are rather carefully than well observed. Mrs. Chapman completes her sketch in the first chapter. The rest of the book is predictable. But on she goes, stabbing her victims with repeated thrusts of her vindictive hatpin. Not that it isn't a sympathetic picture. You feel sorry for Mr. Pinney, bristling and blustering, with his eawing laugh and his spoon cracking in the mustache cup and his pocket comb and his self-inflated pride and obtrusive optimism...
Admiral Sims is agitated because there "is not a competent military critic on any newspaper in the United States, while on the other side (of the Atlantic) there isn't a newspaper without one." The New York Globe, believing this situation to be a godsend rather than a calamity, has the following...