Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tabulation, it will be observed, leaves the Liberals and Premier King with 16 fewer seats than Conservative leader Arthur Meighen and his cohorts can muster, and places the deciding vote in the hands of the Progressives. Now it happens that the Progressive Leader, Mr. Forke, and his supporters are low tariff men. Mackenzie King and the Liberals also have low tariff leanings. But Meighen and the Conservatives are die-hard supporters of a high tariff, and the election has been fought with the tariff as a distinctly major issue. Thus it appeared that Mackenzie King, by allying himself with...
...city manners. Unfortunately he finds her sharp and unattractive. The blond hair and blue eyes of his choice are possessed by the daughter of the poor country druggist. Therefore he enters the drug shop, and makes it pay vast dividends by the introduction of a jazz tearoom. The low comedian marries the heiress, and everybody heads for the happy ever afterward...
...youth desired to sacrifice itself for something that was worth while, but that American colleges have by no means wholly succeeded in making their students feel that the intellectual life is worth while. I referred to a committee which in 1903 found respect for intellectual attainment at a very low ebb at Harvard; and added that the condition has since been much improved by the general examination and the system of tutors...
...elected Governess. He had a majority of 400,000 (whereas Mrs. Ferguson's majority was only 90,000). He has attacked the record of the Highway Commission, claiming that it has spent 20 millions in a few months, and that it let contracts to high-bidders instead of low-bidders. He demanded that the Commission cancel 36 contracts it had made. The Commission declined. The husband of the Governess is declared to be very close to the Commissioners, even to sit in at their meetings and make decisions. The fight is really between him and Mr. Moody. There...
...reader. The disparagement of great men is a pastime indulged in by the intellectuals of every country, when it is done with due regard to decency of speech, but when such a diversion goes beyond all limits of moderation, it then becomes the recreation only of the uncivil and low-minded. In Italy I remember having noticed on various occasions the name of the late President Woodrow Wilson ridiculed by university publications at a time when that name was most unpopular among the Italian students; but never was their language in any way discourteous or defamatory. I think, Mr. Editor...