Word: less
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FASCISM HAS ALREADY STEPPED, AND, IF NEED BE, WILL . . . STEP ONCE MORE, OVER THE MORE OR LESS PUTRID BODY OF THE GODDESS LIBERTY...
...lavished yearly more tenderness upon his ailing wife, while she?sad martyr?bore him son after still-born son. Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned; and promises tremendous cumu lative tragedy in the two unwritten volumes. Less vigorous than the earlier volumes The Snake Pit necessarily strikes a minor key in the story, and would better be read in its proper sequence...
...Whalen was much less successful in meeting the challenge of crime to which he owes his office. The murderer of Gambler Rothstein remained at large; for every speakeasy closed, many remained prosperously open; the city's purlieus were by no means disinfected. Mr. Whalen made threats against 996 "nests of crime" listed in a recent police report. At the Chelsea Methodist Church he declared his opinion that "known criminals have no Constitutional rights." He also blurted out that any who questioned his methods "are not good citizens...
...Were startled by an astounding ambiguity let fall when the Prime Minister was intimating to the House that he favors the building of a railway tunnel under the British Channel (see International). The purport of easy-going Mr. Baldwin's care less remark was, in effect, that he would not be surprised if the forthcoming general election should sweep his party (Conservative) out of their present absolute majority control of Parliament. Said the Prime Minister: "In view of the time required to carry the project through all stages to the completion of the tunnel, the Government is convinced that...
...Navy, whose men tried it out at once at Anacostia, D. C., and found it reliable. The event was significant. In the present industrialization of aeronautics two factors have become highly important- private and commercial exploitation. Some twoscore aircraft companies are making small planes for private gadabouting. Less than a dozen are important manufacturers of great planes capable of carrying pay passengers, express, mail. They are to flying what buses and trucks are to motor ing. The greater their payload per trip, the greater their profits. Fokker and Ford-Stout certainly have the lead in transport manufacture. Close to them...