Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent significant innovation among the flood of new proposals by President Hoover is his plan, presumably promoted by "Good Will," to reorganize the Foreign Service. Although "Good Will" may be merely another term for attracting business, efficiency and practically are the generally accepted motives for the programme. As a result of observations made on his South American trip, Hoover has concluded that diplomatic primacy should be centered in Latin America rather than in Europe; for there, legations seem to be diminishing in their demands for unusually gifted diplomats, since policies and ententes already are firmly established...
Verbosity has been disposed of at the expense of unity. The objection that editorials are too wordy may be founded on actual fact, but they are, in most cases, at least an attempt to crystallize the general consensus of opinion; they try to be rather the expression of the student body than of the writer. Whether they are read or not, they are a criterion of student opinion that is accepted by the world at large. If a multiplicity of individual ideas is to be substituted for the digest offered by the editor, the force of the single expression will...
Gipsy recalled Edison's recent remark that none of the inventor's acquaintances are happy and yet Gipsy Smith claims he knows of numerous women who, penniless as they may be, are happy because God is in their hearts...
...this setting poets and critics will be brought to speak to gatherings of Harvard undergraduates. No more than 40 or 50 students will be expected at a time in order that the donor's wishes for small and friendly conversations, rather than platform speeches, may be carried out. Only undergraduates will be present at these talks...
...exposure of the chorus girl as one of the more exciting attractions of the present musical comedy must give way to the demands of modernity. The admirers of beauty unadorned may lament, but if the virtue of curiosity was to be retained in the human male, something had to be done. Tights and all, "The Black Crook" is dancing once more into public favor, and already the Flora Dora sextet is brushing the moth balls out of those glorious skirts that swept them into the laps of their millionaires...