Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department that it did not want another woman minister. However, with W. Forbes Morgan, Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, and Senate Leader Joseph T. Robinson as her sponsors, Mrs. Harriman's cause was in good hands. Norway, the first nation to grant woman suffrage, was an obvious post for a woman diplomat. Last week Norway had only to say "yes" in order to have Daisy Harriman show the Scandinavians how entertaining should be done in a U. S. legation...
...Commission because he had a "substantial" financial interest in a shipping line within the three years preceding his appointment. Declared sarcastic Senator Frazier, North Dakota Republican, after reading a list of Appointee Kennedy's achievements from Who's Who: "In addition to all these very eminent and obvious qualifications, Mr. Kennedy also contributed $50,000 to the Democratic Campaign Fund in 1932. If that doesn't qualify a man for a job like this I don't know what does...
...aspect of this exuberance is the obvious pains that Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have put themselves to in writing the book. They have tried so hard to make their product entertaining that one is somehow won over by the pervasive enthusiasm, and persuaded to forgive them the lack of any brilliance. Their attempts at social comment are especially feeble. They apparently felt that no play could dare to appear before this hyper-socially-conscious world without some reference to President Roosevelt, the American race problem, Communism, and "Comes the Revolution", even if that play be an avowed farce. Their...
...which the so-called "representative" athletic committees now fail to provide and set up some system whereby athletics can be made to serve all students, Varsity and non-varsity alike. With everyone paying ten dollars, an active voice which can be heard is only fair. One of the most obvious methods by which this can be achieved is indicated by the system of student managers, broad participation, and consequent undergraduate control which have been so successful at Yale. Only by the adoption of the Council's recommendations can the gargantuan aspects be brought under control, while at the same time...
Recommendation number two is for a Hockey rink to be built on Soldiers Field. Figuring that gate receipts would pay for upkeep once the original costs were footed, the committee calls the advantages of such a rink obvious. It would allow longer and easier practices for the college teams. It would allow a full program of intra-mural hockey; it would provide for indoor track meets and would be used to house the increasing crowds that are coming to Cambridge to watch basketball...