Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...biggest Republican wigs gathered last week at Atlantic City for a farewell feast to Walter Evans Edge, once their U. S. Senator, now U. S. Ambassador to France. Most memorable remark of the evening: Senator George Higgins Moses' reference to the Senate as ''that contenated order of glorified errand boys." The evening's news: announcement by Governor Morgan Foster Larson that he would appoint Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, to fill Ambassador Edge's seat in the Senate when Mr. Morrow returns from next month's London Naval Conference...
...about philosophers and their asininity; idealists; fashions in love; Baudelaire; how differently Wordsworth would have felt about Nature if he had visited the tropics. He accuses Swift of the modern sin against the Holy Ghost, sentimentality: "If Swift were alive today, he would be the adored, the baroneted, the Order-of-Merited author, not of Gulliver, not of The Tale of a Tub, not of the Directions to Servants, but of A Kiss for Cinderella and Peter Pan." Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable. Even his epigrams have ceased to be annoyingly clever. If he still shocks...
...engaged in a struggle to curb the drink evil. Some are trying one method and some another. Some, like England, are restricting more and more the hours and reducing the number of places in which liquor may be sold. Others are placing heavy taxes on distilled liquor in order to make it too expensive for most people. Others are prohibiting the selling of liquor except in Government dispensaries. We, in this country, have tried all of these and are now engaged in an attempt to limit the sale of liquor to medicinal and sacramental purposes...
...reformers, and depicts St. Francis of Assisi renouncing his riches. The panel, which has been lent to the Museum by Messrs. Reynolds, Francis & Rohnstock in connection with the lectures on stained glass which are being given by Professor Marcel Aubert, is on exhibition in Gallery IV, and in order that the students may more conveniently see the construction, it has been placed at the eye level...
...Would it be possible for a representative of the Houses or some one familiar with the details of Lowell and Dunster Houses to talk to groups of interested students in order to answer questions and clear up certain points...