Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Terseness has been Calvin Coolidge's contribution to modern political speech in the U. S. Studious, abstract prolixity has been Herbert Hoover's. Plainness, homeliness, informality, which some called "cheapness" and others "humor," what some called "smart" and others "clever," what none denied had drive and excitement characterized the campaign utterances of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, daughter of the late Great Commoner. She has her father's face and something of his frame. Modern conditions required her to substitute practical thinking for the passionate oratory that might have been her inherited forte. Long before the Smith tariff declaration at Louisville, she found it necessary to declare for Protection, which her father fought so long. Florida has changed since the Commoner first invested in its real estate and conducted prayer meetings there. Northern business men and methods opened a new field for northern political ideas and attitudes. Ruth Bryan Owen...
Died. Levi W. Hutton, 68, capitalist & philanthropist of Spokane, Wash.; of diabetes; in Spokane. His fortune was made in the lead-silver mining boom in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Most modern is the Hutton settlement in Spokane, where 80 orphans are housed on 300 acres...
Such was the alarming prophecy, last week, of able Dr. Julius Klein of the U. S. Dept. of Commerce. He was recalling the ancient and modern history of the commodity of rubber. Columbus, exploring the island of Hispaniola, was the first to see natives playing with balls which seemed to bound miraculously to Heaven. Three centuries later, Chemist Joseph Priestley advised his fellow Englishmen that the miraculous substance would erase pencil-markings, might well be called "rubber." It was only 100 years ago that a Scotchman named Mackintosh dissolved rubber in naptha and perpetuated his name in an overcoat...
...children's party." But so well did they play cricket that they lived down the velvets. Harold careered brilliantly at Cambridge (financed on his brother Jonathan's small inheritance) while his brother Jonathan worked his way through the local medical school. Both brothers loved elfin yet extremely modern Edie-Harold blithely, Jonathan desperately. Came the War with a smart uniform for Harold, a curt injunction that Jonathan continue as invaluable village doctor. His constant helpmeet was Rachel, dark-eyed beauty, but he kept reminding himself that calm brunettes were not his type -too unlike Edie. These contemplations were...