Word: lows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS is a skeptic age--and such periods have never been conducive to poetry, at least of an epic scale. One can readily see how mediocre verse fits in with the skeptic's view of things--it gives him cause to crab at the age's low level--and how their mutual dependency makes them thrive under such consoling companionship. At the same time, but perhaps not so patently, one may see how great poetry must be irritating to the skeptic. But it certainly consoles those with a larger and deeper philosophy of life. One feels as the one ought...
...more ready to believe, however, that this wistfulness is tempered with a homely and personal desire to whip the Yale Second Team. But whatever, the part of individual ambition in the struggle for positions on the University's two upper squads, there is yet one more squad. Low enough so that the melodies of the columnists pass unheard over its head, for even Grantland Rice never sang the sub-scrub, the class football squad at Harvard has entered into its Year IV with little flourish, and yet with a kind of distinction...
...hope" of Wisconsin and the Dakotas. Now came Clinton W. Gilbert, seasoned correspondent for the Republican New York Evening Post, with an eye-witness report that Minnesota was "in the balance." Party lines are almost invisible in the Northwest but Correspondent Gilbert thought he could perceive underlying reasons: the low price of wheat, the absence of the religious and social-eligibility issues; the wetness of the cities; Smith's popularity; race feeling; the G. O. P.'s opposition to Senator Shipstead, who seeks re-election as a Farmer-Laborite; the Democrats' shrewdness in withdrawing their candidate...
...speeches on some set subject before some select chamber of commerce or board of trade. I conceive it to be his duty to talk to the American people and to talk to them in the plain ordinary, everyday language that everybody understands. In other words, give them the 'low-down.' Let them in on the ground floor, so that they will know what is going on in Washington...
With bitter pen he wrote: "Thomas Bat'a is the Henry Ford of Shoes. . . . But Ford, in comparison with Bat'a, is a model of uprightness and humanity. . . . Zlin, the Bat'a Shoe City, is a second Detroit, but a Detroit with low wages. . . . Bat'a speeds up his workers to greater and yet greater output . . . shameless exploitation . . . lower wages than in other Czechoslovakian shoe factories . . . wanton exploitation of the workers, mostly young men and women...