Word: minors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immovable amid clamor; a man who defied the mob; a man who beatified plutocracy by glorifying parsimony; a man who defied untoward events by ignoring them-him they saw as a hero and blinked his warts and scars. So in the white light that beats upon a throne the minor vices of a President sometimes at long range become his major virtues in the public...
...Minor keys obtruded: "States, counties, municipalities, increased their cost (1921-25) by $3,500,000,000. This steady increase in governmental cost on the part of the States and municipalities is a menace to prosperity, cannot be ignored, will not correct itself. . . . Another adverse tendency is ... speculation...
...everything may derive some pleasure from "Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers." Likewise those who agreed with James Branch Cabell that "The Hard-boiled Virgin" is "the most profound book yet written by any American woman" may condone Miss Newman's latest tour de force as one of the minor sins of genius. To the rest of the public, including this reader, however, this new novel is as unreadable as the former one; the author has possibly proved that dead lovers are faithful lovers but in the process she has once more given evidence that all sentences are not intelligible sentences...
...Hoover's strategy, his war record, his whirlwind courtship, his lowly birth, and even about his cooks, but not a word has been printed about his skill with rod, reel, and creel. It is understandable, pe haps, that the attention of the public might be side-tracked temporarily on minor issues, on the Prohibition question, rebellious farm bloc, or a yelping Senator Norris, but can this important qualification for the highest position this country can offer a man be neglected for long...
Concerto Grosso in D minor for String Orchestra (Op. 6, No. 10) Handel...