Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When such ill-advised measures become laws, their enforcement casts the shadow of their own insignificance on other laws, made wisely and rationally. The effect is to cause disregard of the whole mass of legislation. While the statutes are laden with these trivialities, respect for the law, for its own sake, can hardly be demanded...
...great mass of our people who have become weary and a little ashamed of seeing the United States bury its head in the sand while storms are brewing across the water, the President's proposal of joining the World Court has come as a bright ray of hope. The Republican Senators have turned their backs on the proposal. Public sentiment may, be next December, be strong enough to force Senatorial approval. In any case new senators, unskilled in the "art of doing nothing", will come into office to form a new legislative body. Meanwhile, of the old one: "We come...
...Mass meetings everywhere have raised once more the issue of universal manhood suffrage. It is a question of age and income...
Madison Square Garden was jammed for the battle, which went the full fifteen rounds without the suggestion of a knockout. Tunney carried the thumping to his opponent's ribs and body until they were a mass of fevered blotches. Greb, who resides in Pittsburgh, employed his traditional plunging roughness and was warned repeatedly for butting Tunney with his head. Tunney took the decision on points...
...composer. It would not be too rash to state outright that it was the finest Mozart conducting to be heard in the world today. Walter very sensibly cut down the orchestra to eighteenth century propositions. He achieved an exquisite balance of tone. It was no case of the huge mass of modern strings drowning the small body of woodwinds, as usually happens, with the result that you hear little more than a monotonous orchestra of violins. Mozart sounded very modern in orchestration, with a rich and varied blending of winds and strings. Walter brought much clarity and grace into...