Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like most New Yorkers, she is for modifying Prohibition. She is "sporting" and hearty. She has said: "Politics seems to me to be like a game of college football," and, "When I play tennis and lose, I make it a point to get to the net first to congratulate my opponent." She is so charming that James A. O'Gorman Jr., the smooth, young, curly-haired, Princeton-educated son-of-the-system whom she defeated for the Council, took her to lunch the day after she beat him. Debating against Mr. Phelps last week she cried...
Next Ben touched upon Peace and Disarmament, but not in such a way as to lose the sympathy of workers in munitions factories: "The Kellogg Treaty adds a bit," he said, "yes it adds a bit, but only a bit to that peace mentality that needs creating. . . . Disarmament touches the interests of the working class, but it might be cheaper to pension all those engaged in naval or military work than to let them continue unholy preparations...
Harriman-Soviet. There were days when it seemed that William Averell Harriman and his associates must lose their $3,450,000 put into a Soviet concession to export Manganese ore from the Chiatouri district of Russia. The Soviets had formed a state Manganese trust. But last week they announced an agreement to retain the Harriman money, to pay the Harriman an income guaranteed by 7% bonds...
Gentlemen of the Press. The second newspaper play to arrive in town this season was immediately subjected to a comparison with the first, The Front Page, which did not thereby lose its position as a headliner. The comparison, though, was interesting for it proved that truth, stranger than fiction, is not as exciting when placed upon the stage. Gentlemen of the Press lacks the hectic, unreal, melodramatic turbulence of the Hecht-MacArthur piece and insomuch it is a more true and a less compelling drama. Ward Morehouse of the dramatic page of the New York Sun wrote it; he should...
...Seeming to Say Something Without Doing So must be practiced, no matter how it bores or shames you. Candid candidates lose. It is folly to discuss live issues unless forced...