Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jade journal for jaded tastes has long been a moot question. To assume the clear of a Machiavelli in serious, sane, and democratic America is to insure some notoriety. Mr. Meneken often prefer being exactly notorious to being notoriously exact. Perhaps the need of American politics is a manual of malfeasance, of the psychology of political pragmatism, perhaps not. For, although the Machiavellian side of political theory will always remain the abode of the cynic in politics and, therefore, continue always to maintain some importance one cannot consider this particular proponent too seriously. The ironies of Shaw may be "gargoyles...
...days of his education over, he repaired, still at a tender age, to Switzerland where, to earn his living and pay his way through Lausanne University, he became a manual laborer. Subsequently, his revolutionary activities resulted in his being evicted from one Swiss canton after another; and, when he tried his fortune at journalism in Austria, he rapidly met a like fate at the hands of Emperor Franz Josef's soldiers...
TIME believes that if Original Subscriber Westman will inquire of the John Murphy Co., he will find that the manual was technically incorrect and that TIME was correct...
Authority: A Manual of Prayers For Use of the Catholic Laity, P. 413,415, John Murphy Co., Baltimore, Md., 1889. Will you please make this correction for the truth's sake...
...Henry Blaney, 13, of the Lynn Manual Training School had an interview with the President and Mrs. Coolidge, and presented them with a wood carving of themselves and Rob Roy, Presidential collie. The President reciprocated by presenting Master Blaney with two dimes, three nickels and five pennies. Thereupon the President retired to his dictation and Mrs. Coolidge to the flower garden with Mrs. Stearns...