Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tourist-hunters. Taft stayed behind, corpulent, just, constantly annoying his children, the citizens, by his benevolent logic. They had voted for him because the dynamic, hustle-up Roosevelt had told them to. When they found how unRooseveltian Taft was, they were vexed. Their clamor pained and confused him. The late Senator Dolliver described him as a large, amiable island surrounded by people who knew just what they wanted. "Figuratively," as William Allen White says, "he used to come out upon the front stoop of the White House and quarrel petulantly with the American people every...
Bench. In 1921, a message pencilled on rough copy paper and signed "Gus," reached the Hon. William Howard Taft in Canada. It was from the late Gustave J. Karger, oldtime correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star. "Gus" reported that President Harding had just decided "to appoint Big Bill Chief Justice." Back to Washington he went, now far removed from the irrational bickerings of "practical men." Looking down from the High Bench, he beheld the "Best Minds" of the Harding era on the job, many of them from his native Ohio. When the Oil Scandals broke, there were no party ties...
...hard enough! I want to fight but how can I fight when my opponent [Nominee Hoover] won't fight?" ... It was also the week of that classic political utterance: "Nothing embarrasses me!" . . . Louis W. Hill, Board Chairman of the Great Northern Railroad and son of its founder, the late, great James J. Hill, jumped for joy and led cheers on the Smith platform in St. Paul. . . . Senator Shipstead, the duck-hunting dentist, the Farmer Laborite, was friendly-and then reported "hurt," "alienated." . . . Milwaukee went wild over the prospect of hearing its beer signs creak again. . . . Nominee Smith went...
Every year many an undergraduate chooses courses other than the sciences because of some valuable outside activity, which requires his afternoons. Were he able to do his laboratory work in the early evening or late afternoon he would still he able to take part in such things as organized athletics without the sacrifice of much desired courses in chemistry. The presence of a few attendants in the stock-room would of course be necessary at all times when the building were open, but there is this same necessity in regard to libraries and reading rooms. There is every reason...
...Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, founded by the late C. C. Stillman '98, will be vacant this year, the third since its establishment, according to an announcement made last night...