Word: ladens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When such ill-advised measures become laws, their enforcement casts the shadow of their own insignificance on other laws, made wisely and rationally. The effect is to cause disregard of the whole mass of legislation. While the statutes are laden with these trivialities, respect for the law, for its own sake, can hardly be demanded...
...journalist's modern problem, it would seem, is over-production. When one looks at the over-laden newsstands and magazine racks, and notes the same authors in periodical after periodical, it is scarcely to be wondered that most of the writing is make-shift and haphazard. Criticism, especially, is filling more and more space; in fact it is the proving-ground of many a young writer, and the incidental odd-jobbery of older hands at the literary game. But it is not highly paid, and since much of it is under commercial influences, it is perfunctory at best, and usually...
...expedition is to visit South America, Africa, Australia, Japan and thence home through the Mediterranean until finally, after four months spent in about thirty-five different ports, it returns to England supposedly laden with orders and business opportunities. In short, it is an attempt on a grand scale to build up the fallen fortunes of British manufacturing, and so the first step toward an England industrially active and financially solvent...
After a hectic tour of America, the mighty Marshal of France is safely aboard his steamer homeward bound. He returns like a Roman Emperor back from the wars, laden with trophies of every conceivable sort. His triumph beggars description. But unlike most men their duty is done, he need not fear for his future. If he wishes to set up as a lawyer, he has more than a score of LL. D. degrees, conferred by the highest universities of the land-surely no one will question his competence to serve at the bar. Or if manual labor has a stronger...