Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the League of Nations-not as an expediency of partisan politics, but as a Christian duty to establish world peace. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington political correspondents, declares that church sentiment is making the League, once " dead," an issue which Mr. Harding and other candidates cannot afford to neglect...
Candidates for the best-dressed man in the 68th Congress: Senator Edward I. Edwards, militant wet, of New Jersey; Representative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, son-in-law of Roosevelt. Most Senators and Congressmen, with studied neglect, stay out of the race, or, like Senator Brookhart, Iowa farmer, they run it backwards...
...doings of all governments, foreign and domestic. This is not remarked by way of finding fault with the newspapers. It is intended rather to help the reader understand how it happens that public opinion, in relation to the affairs of Congress, drifts so easily from indifference and neglect to impatience and disparagement...
...final aftermath of the Firpo-Brennan conflict was the removal of Brennan to a New York hospital suffering concussion of the brain. The Evening Mail (New York) promptly published a screed of sympathy, but repeated emphatic assertions that Brennan's injuries were due to his own defensive neglect. Behind the Mail's annoyed murmurs is a widespread suspicion that Brennan made no serious attempt to win the fight...
...general argument for a Department of Education at Washington is that the National Government should not neglect a business of such vital importance to the nation. Such a Department, it is said, will not interfere with local institutions except to advise and give useful information. At the same time it can be of immense service in fighting national illiteracy and helping the immigrant...