Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critic St. John Ervine in the New York World last week related that Bernard Shaw had once assured him that the characters of whom he wrote were interesting to him only as megaphones through which he himself might voice his social speculations; but since it is impossible to have much interest in ideas about human problems without having first an even larger interest in the human beings who are faced with them, Shaw's plays, among them Major Barbara, are interesting for their people rather than their propaganda. Before any writer can portray Rummy Mitchens, a Salvation Army derelict...
...this football rally it is customary for all Yale undergraduates to yell and cheer. This year, however, only 500 were gathered together in the name of Yale. President James Rowland Angell, having campaigned so vigorously and with such notable success for Herbert Hoover, apparently supposed that his moral support might also take happy effect upon the football team. "The bigger they come, the harder they fall," he said. Then Tad Jones, onetime Yale coach, spoke scornfully of the decline of the Yale spirit and the growth of wisdom. With tears in his eyes he described the undergraduates who were...
...Conservative criticism might lead ignorant laymen to believe that impressionists & post-impressionists are frenzied young anarchists. But the leaders have all died. Paul Cézanne, pioneer postimpressionist, succumbed to diabetes...
...discovery; his daughter Frances had hysterical remorse; the traffic policeman appeared innocently bewildered and spoke of the many important friends he had, among them William B. Leeds Jr. and "Stitch" McCarthy, the so-called Mayor of Chinatown, Manhattan. Had they happened first upon anyone of these, the detectives might have remained baffled; but instead, after many sleuthing trips across the Atlantic, during which he had amused them with songs and served them with refreshments, they had come to suspect the Chief Steward of the Berengaria, William Ballyn...
...credit as a result. Not every one of the 1,131 listed stocks has advanced in the Hoover Market, but few have gone off. Certain stocks have appreciated 75% and even 100% in value. For a fair view of the more spectacular aspects of the Hoover Market, investors might consider this table...