Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...May I correct the usage of a word in your review of Sassoon's remarkable book, "Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man" which you entitled "Huntsman...
...will serve Mr. Hoover in this capacity, the Post Office being the largest job-pasture in the Government (365,000 workers). Since President Hoover has evinced an interest in Government reorganization, perhaps the Brown Plan of 1921 will emerge from its pigeonhole. Otherwise, and perhaps even so, Mr. Brown may be counted on as a quiet yes-peg with a political point...
...friends regard him as Moist, if not Wet. To jack up the saggine morale of the Navy will be a man-sized job for him, which he will doubtless undertake with his usual quiet determination. He may be a yes-man to the White House occupant but to the admirals who flock around every Navy chief with selfish advice and suggestions he will most likely listen patiently and then, a seadog himself, bark...
...seen in a rear seat on the Democratic side watching legislation hawk-eyed. With women in its membership, the House is used to having women on its floor; hence it admitted women secretaries long ago. But not the Senate, where men are statesmen. Women members of the House may tread there. And "grand old" Mrs. Rebecca Ratimer Felton of Georgia, was actually Senator, for one day in 1922, by a southern gentleman-governor's gesture.* But women secretaries have been barred even more rigorously than senators-suspect...
...efficient enforcement of the law. . . . Grave abuses have occurred. An organized searching investigation of fact and causes can alone determine the wise method of correcting them." Congress last week voted $250,000 "for such inquiry into the problem of law enforcement, including national prohibition, as the President may direct...