Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little more than a courtesy visit. Mr. Hoover is traveling too rapidly to have time really to become acquainted with men and things along the way. Nor need we look for immediate political or economic results, except in so far as the visit influences Mr. Hoover's policy and that of his government after March 4 next. The development of American trade depends largely, if not solely, upon our ability to offer better goods at better prices. And improved political relations depend upon the policy of our Department of State in Caribbean America, and upon the way our Congress manipulates...
...people whom I have in mind are the first to complain of mob law, lawless violence of laborites and other disturbances of the peace, but when it comes to a violation of the 18th Amendment, and the Volstead law, they seem to feel no obligation to protest. They would look at this law, that is declared in the Constitution and in the statute book, with contempt. One hears intelligent people say: 'As this contracts my liberty, I don't regard it as necessary to observe it.' Although they don't intend to, if they say that...
...seventies." The troubles of the characters in it are not rendered artificial by the artificialities of its expression, and the graces of a graceful era are retained. Watching the passion and despair of these costumed people, you smile at first and then realize suddenly that though they look strange their feelings are familiar...
There was some hesitation at first on the part of the ushers whether to look on the stage or in the audience, but a second alarm, obviously in the rear of the theater convinced them that the orchestra was not the guilty party. The search then started off in earnest, the duet becoming a sextet almost coincidentally. To the consternation of some and the amusement of all--excepting, of course, the management--the six alarm clocks were finally found tied to the hatracks under six seats on the main floor of the theater...
...that covered what was once the road to the west bordered by country houses now wave over whirring traffic. The house at the head of Longfellow Park peeps from behind its screen of shrubbery as it did seventy years ago, and those who pass the Craigie House turn and look, or do not turn and pass, knowing vaguely that a poet once lived there...