Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, in your May 14 issue, 3rd column, page 18, what possible excuse have you for referring to the late Queen Victoria of England as "dumpy"; the word lacks respect when it refers to that beloved ruler of a Great Nation who during her life was described as "the most Queenly woman and the most womanly Queen of her time...
...more personal matters, how is it possible to associate Tyler with such filthy stories as are ascribed to Lincoln by his friends? Granting that Tyler could not have written Lincoln's Gettysburg speech, it is also true that he could not have written, at any period of his life. The indecent letter which Lincoln wrote to a Mrs. Owens concerning a lady to whom he had proposed and by whom he had been rejected, nor could he have written any letter like that which Lincoln wrote to General Grant in 1865 asking that his son, aged...
Clearly the under dogs were yapping at "Them." Replied Top Dog Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, His Majesty's Attorney General, sternly: "The Lord High Chancellor [Baron Hogg of Hailsham] himself is satisfied that Lord Burghley takes an active interest in public life and is well fitted to hold the office. . . . I consulted His Lordship before making the appointment. . . . It was his opinion that a young man of standing should receive an opportunity in early life to gain experience in public affairs...
...most potentially dangerous when he seems to be doing nothing of importance. Therefore, few Greeks were really surprised, last week, when Eleutherios Venizelos journeyed from Crete to Athens and announced with quiet firmness: "I am compelled to recall the statement that I had retired to private life. The insidious forces, Anarchists on the one hand and Royalists on the other, threaten the public security. I shall resume my leadership of the Liberal party...
Other books on the list are "The Three Desires of the Happy Life", by J. T. Duncan '03: "Behind the Curtain", by E. D. Biggers: "American Architecture", by S. F. Kimball...