Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Hodge, like William Jennings Bryan, has a faithful following. Both are good actors; both deal exclusively in sweetness and light; both are harrowingly obvious. Hodge has succeeded where Bryan failed because he is shrewd enough to dress his platitudes for the theatre and label them "amusement...
...predictions as to the trend of business have in recent years proved so accurate and courageous that his remarks are always worth listening to. His mouthpiece, the fortnightly bulletin of the Cleveland Trust, now expresses its opinion that 1924 will be a year of diminished prosperity, and cites the obvious decline in output of iron and steel, automobiles, tires, cotton, wool, shoes and building construction. It also declares that short-term interest charges are about to begin a long decline, and that in consequence food prices should respond by commencing a gradual rise. The bulletin very sanely concludes: "There...
...than to their elders. A four hour day would make unnecessary for the workman the drudgery of night school in order to gain and education. It would give greater opportunity for cultured development; it would leave more time for healthful sport, to mention only a few of its more obvious benefits. Let Mr. Edision bring on his short-time working day and stop worrying about its effect. The doleful Malthus will perhaps snare the country in the toils of his population low in a few generations. But meanwhile people would like the chance of creating a Golden Age which might...
...possible candidates very materially. Judging by income tax returns there are only 10,000 or 15,000 millionaires in the country. Of this number probably half must be deducted for lack of proper education, a third of the rest for being Democrats, and nine-tenths of the remainder for obvious reasons, including lack of interest, poor personality...
...Obvious Care Is Lavished Upon an Advanced Specimen The Story. George Wallace was a Yale man who wrote poetry. After college he went into newspaper work and grew properly ashamed of ever having versified-until he met Judith Winthrop. Judith's ancestors had chartered the Mayflower or something, but she was as advanced a specimen of our modern intelligentsia as you could find. She had a Shaw-green room and a dozen pet paradoxes and wrote articles for Tomorrow, a journal of opinion, in forming the world that Charles S. Chaplin could act. George fell in love with...