Word: kind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of the board. None, it seems to me, is called for. The production justifies itself; it voices a typical Harvard impatience, whether well or ill founded makes no difference, and directs a perfectly legitimate undergraduate criticism at a subject of undergraduate, and University, importance. Criticism of any kind is a sign of health, implying not only intelligence, which may be assumed, but interest as well
...contracts for sewer construction. Famed Lawyer Emory Roy Buckner, conducting the State's prosecution, showed circumstantial evidence that Mr. Connolly had aided the late John M. ("Gentleman Jack") Phillips to achieve a sewer pipe monopoly in Queens Borough. In 1917 specifications were doctored to require the kind of pipe that only Mr. Phillips could sell. From 1917 to 1927 Mr. Phillips' prices were exorbitant. Lawyer Buckner dramatically displayed them on a chart. Mr. Connolly had the power to jockey contracts. He seemed to have awarded them as he wished. He mysteriously acquired thousands of dollars. Mr. Connolly, said...
...debut at the Metropolitan in 1926, it was in the full glare of blazing publicity. Critics realized that the fuss was none of her making, that presses all over the U. S. were starved at the time for a good human interest story. They were for the most part kind. She had a pleasant voice. She might some day become an artist. And for three years they waited...
Second: Mr. Hoover has shown remarkable capacity, in every kind of situation, to get every one to work enthusiastically with him, and he has done it without authority, without a "big stick", with nothing but the soundness of his ideas and the persuasiveness of his quiet efficiency...
...revolutionary brigade in Shanghai and lived for several months the gay life of a looter, profligate ?drunken and debauched. Suddenly he cut short this spree and when convivial friends assembled to remonstrate he cried: ''You are my friends! My friends? Bah! I have given up your kind of life to give my real services to my country. . . . You are not MY friends...