Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second star witness was Charles Michael Schwab, benevolent-looking Chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp. He declared that he would like to see every battleship sunk, he never met Mr. Shearer so far as he recalled, regarded his employment as unwise. Said...
Upstairs a policeman enters (Edward J. McNamara). He has been sent by the indignant fiance, but is speedily pacified at the mention of liquors. Says the girl: "Why, policemen never drink, do they?" Says the bluecoat: "It just seems like never...
Playwright Patrick Hamilton denies that he was influenced by the history of Leopold and Loeb, acknowledges a debt to Thomas De Quincey's essay "Murder as a Fine Art." The source is immaterial -this crescendo of fear depends on neither history nor scholarship. Mr. Hamilton, like Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, is an artist who makes diabolical fiction seem as real as sticks and stones...
Even more peculiar than the dive under the bench was the position in which Mr. Hughes found himself, last week, as he started campaigning for re-election to the Dominion Parliament. He claims to be a Nationalist (he formed the Nationalist party in 1917) and would like to run as such, but because he engineered the defeat of his personal enemy Nationalist Prime Minister Bruce last fortnight, the Nationalist Party formally refused to endorse his candidacy last week. On the other hand, although he claims he is not a member of the Laborite Opposition, the Labor Party announced last week...
...present friendly feeling which Australians have for Americans. The United States is Australia's model. We study everything you do and endeavor to imitate you to the best advantage. We have the greatest admiration for Ameri can spirit and vigor, and American methods generally. We want to be like Americans. It seems to me that the wise thing would be for our two countries to get closer and closer together...