Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shown by college students, granted the high-mindedness that inspires their action, granted the need for experience in the practical side of political theory and governmental workings--but what, in the name of all that is muddle-headed, what business has the Harvard Liberal Club interfering in Congressional legislation? Isn't it muddled enough...
...gave a little dope on Jim Farley, organized labor and the NRA the other day. This honest man had it right in his simple way. He said that the logical unions were entirely controlled by a small cabal of thieves who blackmailed everybody, including their own members. This isn't five star final material, I know but it simply substantiates an old prejudice of mine to the effect that collective bargaining is all right if honest men are doing the bargaining, but crooked organized labor is a menace to the honest laborer. . . . This chap also said he used to know...
Andre Morize, who teaches at Bordeaux and also at Harvard, thinks conversation is languishing. A lot of other people think so, too. Professor Morize has a theory that one reason why conversation isn't so good as it used to be, and ought to be, is that people go to teas, and stand up all through them. You can't talk well standing up, he says, which just goes to show that he's never met Smedley D. Butler, Hugh S. Johnson or One-Eyed Connolly, or never stood up in a pre-war saloon, where conversation was practically rampant...
...maybe the notion that conversation isn't so good as it used to be is just a superstition. Maybe conversation never was so good as it used to be. People as they grow older often grow to think that nothing is quite so good as it used to be--motoring isn't so good as buggy-riding, the winters aren't so cold, the summers aren't so pleasant, the statesmen aren't so intelligent, the politicians aren't so honest, the apples aren't so red and the goose doesn't hang so high. Worcester Telegram...
Nash's threat to the low-priced field has a now kind of springing this year, which gives greater comfort and requires no lubrication. Otherwise there isn't much difference, externally...