Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assistant Secretary Hope, 50, was born in Philadelphia. From Princeton he was graduated in 1901. During the War he served as a dollar-a-year-man in the U. S. Fuel Administration. His two chief interests: New York charities; Princeton University. For three years (1914-17) he was chairman of the Princeton Graduate Council. For another three years (1924-27) he was president of the Princeton Club of New York. He is a university life trustee member of its Administrative Committee, chairman of its Library Committee...
Finally impatient, the President picked his own man, Wilbur N. Hughes, once identified with the Bean group. Awful to hear were the wails of protest from Committeeman Skipper et al. Last month Dr. Fred E. Britten, secretary of the State Republican organization, wrote President Hoover a rebellious letter in which he said: "In the name of God and for the sake of righteousness as well as the economic prosperity of Florida I plead with you to withdraw this nomination." He threatened dire reprisals unless the President appointed men chosen by Mr. Skipper...
...fortnight the jury of eight men and four women had heard evidence, listened to argument. Fall had collapsed at the beginning of the trial, had been pronounced a dangerously ill man by impartial doctors but, at his insistence, the trial had gone on (TIME...
...defense reeked with sentimentality and patriotism. Lawyer Hogan made the women of the jury weep. Doheny on the witness stand cried easily and often. Frequent were the references to Fall's bad health. Lawyer Thompson tried to describe "a red haired young man" (Doheny) and "a black haired young fellow" (Fall) meeting on the "deserts of the Southwest" when Justice Hitz cut in: "The color of Mr. Doheny's hair is not in evidence. Please follow the evidence." Lawyer Hogan made an impassioned plea for the jury to send Fall "back to the sunshine of New Mexico." Remarked...
...strange and awesome chants. This lyricism, now solo, now antiphonal, now choral, is a poetic, formalized utterance. The diction is abominable-words can only be guessed at-but the import of these Gaelic spirituals can be felt. Mystic and throbbing, they express the soldiers' gruesome mission and man's revolt from the ghastliness he has made for himself...