Word: mays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flagrant Shearer lobbying in Congress. The generalizing minds of Congressmen expanded easily from one lobby to all lobbying. Senators Borah, Shortridge, Robinson, Black, La Follette cried out for more investigations. Senator Caraway of Arkansas and Representative Gibson of Vermont introduced resolutions calling for a "thorough investigation." Soon lobbyists may have to lobby for the very existence of lobbying...
...Girls. . . . More and more girls, for the joy they get out of the organization, because in scouting they may help themselves instead of having things thrust upon them. It is what they put into the organization that makes them happy. That is true of everything in life...
...handsome crier is named Thomas E. Waggaman. His admonishment, uttered after the Justices are seated, has been preceded by the flash of a light over the courtroom's side door. He has banged his gavel for all present to rise as the Justices march in. Now all may sit, at Crier Waggaman's next gavel-bang, and Justice takes its course...
...advantages possessed by the playwright over writers of other literary forms is that when he produces a work with deficiencies that would ensure its speedy extinction in any other medium he may have it cast and produced so effectively as to make it a hit. Such is the happy fate that befell Mr. Barry, the author of "Courage" now playing at the Willbur...
This kindred spirit, President Angell says, is to spring from such things as friendship for fellow members, the beauty and attractiveness of the buildings, athletic and other rivalries, and the houses as havens for returning alumni. This may all well be, yet it emphasizes a tendency too easily succumbed to on the part of the advocates of the House Plan to emphasize the house aspect and forget Yale. We want no heterogeneous conglomeration of houses like Oxford--no Ballot, Chariot's or Trinity: we want Yale, transcending the whole and holding this house aspect in check when it comes...