Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibit "liberal" ideas and evoke a "progressive" platform inevitably finds plenty of people to listen to him. An avowed "conservative" usually commands an audience of himself and row upon row of empty chairs. As a result, people become so afraid of being thought conservative in any way, that they lean backward in an effort to stand straight as out-and-out liberals. In consequence, they resort to every extreme to show themselves in full sympathy with the latest popular movement in every field. Under these circumstances, liberalism tends to become radicalism, reflected in every "latest fad,"--in post-impressionistic renderings...
...bill this week at the a Majestic surpasses its usual standard. It is seldom that the theatre-goer has the opportunity to enjoy so many first-class vaudeville acts in one evening. Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield entertained with several original lyrics, among which was, "when a Wife Gets Fat". Cecil Lean's caricature of a baseball fan was extremely good and should be made the leading part of the act. Sam Hearn, the fiddling politician, gave a little speech dealing more or less with politics, but at any rate keeping every one in a happy frame of mind with...
...industrial concern may shut down if the losses thereby occasioned are less than those which it sustains under operation in these subnormal times. In the second place, the typical industrial concern made abnormal profits during the war and so gained a surplus to carry it over the lean years. The railroads, on the other hand, have no war fat to sustain them during the reconstruction period...
...Psyche" and the "Hymm to Apollo" are also shown exactly as they were written. Several of the poet's best known sonnets, including one to Spencer and the one beginning "Give me a golden pen and let me lean" are included in Mr. Morgan's collection...
...Phillips Brooks House Text Book Lean Library will be open on Thursday rom 1 until...