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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same note of blind optimism, almost pathologic in its character, pervades the entire Washington scene. President Roosevelt in his admirably phrased message to Congress refers to "those for whom recovery means a reform of many old methods, a permanent readjustment of many of our ways of thinking, and therefore of many of our social and economic arrangements." But the President makes no specific reference as to what general plan this "readjustment of our ways of thinking" are to take...
...this last that Harvard men knew him best. Many a prospective young teacher visited Mr. Cram, diffident but hopeful, and watched that careful consignment of his blank to the files of the Secretary of Appointments. The weeks passed, and the hope waned, but always there came the little note, the position which had been snatched out of the air, it seemed, by Mr. Cram's quiet diligence and energy. On these occasions the student found it difficult to believe that George Washington Cram could ever slam a telephone receiver, that he was, of all University Hall officials, the most exacting...
Again France was the largest defaulter, $22.200.927, the others being Poland ($5,408.292), Belgium ($2,859,454) and Estonia ($435,408). King Albert's little Belgium again sent the tartest note to the U. S. State Department, snapped that she signed her debt agreement only after verbal assurances in Washington that her payments to the U. S. would be "amply covered by German reparations payments" shut off by the Hoover Moratorium...
...Most notable increase is in the number of U. S. words and phrases. "However rude or crude" they might be, said Professor Gordon, "they were so expressive, so impudently near the truth, that it was hard to resist them a place in any honest lexicon." U. S. eyes may note examples from Jack London. George Ade, O. Henry, H. L. Mencken, Zane Grey-even so unliterary an exemplar as the late great Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some U. S. examples: "Speak-easy" (1889): "Yup. U.S. Variant of yep, yes" (1906); "Razz...
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