Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year is a time alike of retrospection and of prospection. People look back and see that their cash accounts have been ridiculously handled; that their time gas been wanted here and there, and that such treasured ideals as Efficiency and Purpose have gone to the damnation bow-wows. And then they look ahead and make resolutions. Those holes in the trouser pockets shall be sewed up, and the old gentleman with the hour-glass and the sickle shall march more properly in time to the music. This above all; everybody will henceforward be true to his purpose. Everybody...
...they get any news about Mr. Venizelos? I am a Royalist, and I am proud ot it. I will fight for the Royalist flag any old time so tell me what the news is about my countree. I depend on your magazine for the news and you look like you are scared to tell me the news. I will expect to hear from...
...most G. O. P. offices this year, there is no picture of Product Harding. ... A telegraph instrument chatters with nervous importance down the hall. There are private wires, telephone as well as telegraph, to both Washington and New York. . . . Throngs of people, some important, some trying to look important, "confer" in standing groups of two, three, four. , . . Throngs of Mr. Good's assistants come, go, confer. One is named Hainer Hinshaw. The office believes he is a distant relative of the Nominee. . . . One of the department heads is Col. Hanford MacNider. who resigned last winter as Assistant Secretary...
...running expenses come to $15 per week at maximum. . . . My wife and I haven't been in a train all year. ... If you see an interesting tower or castle on the horizon, even if it is 20 or 30 miles away, you can go over and have a look at it. If you are flying over the seashore, you can fly low and watch people bathing. That is the kind of thing we propose doing. It doesn't matter if it takes us off our course. We will find it right away again...
...musical show, Arthur Hammerstein sliced up his stage in the most extraordinary manner, running treadmills from wing to wing so that sets could be switched without new backdrops, and so that his actors, trotting briskly along to keep pace with the changing scenery, had a little bit the look of squirrels in a cage or the race horses in the last act of The Girl from Kentucky...