Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needs only a short time at "The Duchess of Chicago" at the Shubert to realize that those misgivings were justified. The inevitable unrecognized prince is there; so are the dulcet-voiced prime minister and the financial adviser with a foreign accent. The plot (devised in Europe), evidently an outgrowth of the violent anti-Shylock days, is based on the poverty of the prince and the exuitant power of American money in buying his palace and its traditions. Into this not over-inspired fabric are worked comedy dialogue that is not funny and serious scenes that reek with sentimentality. Not that...
...chief significance of this recent move seems to be as an outgrowth of the pervasive professionalistic tendency, particularly strong in the middle west, toward the increasing power of the coach's position. In the hands of the coach, even an elected captain can often be hardly more than a puppet. The natural outgrowth seems to be in many cases the unnatural appointment of a captain before each game in the same spirit that the coach selects plays against his various opponents...
...also marks the founding of the League of Red Cross Societies by the late great Henry Pomeroy Davison. Red Cross work is the outgrowth of Florence Nightingale's nursing British soldiers during England's Crimean War against Russia and of the Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant's description of suffering in the battle of Solferino (1859). Formal organization of war nursing began at Geneva in 1864. During the World War, such nursing was well organized. Perhaps most efficient was the American Red Cross which Davison headed. In May, 1919, he persuaded England, France, Italy and Japan to join...
...Aldrich represented Rhode Island in the Senate from 1881 to 1911, and was the first chairman of the National Monetary Commission, appointed by Congest in 1908 to study the banking situation throughout the world with a view to revising American banking methods. The Federal Reserve system was a direct outgrowth of the commission's findings, although the proposal of reserve banks met with hostility when first proposed, and was not immediately adopted...
...shouted out names: "No doubt Chicago merits this visitation as a return for its sins. In 1925, the Journal spoke briefly relative to the American Association for Medico-Physical Research, a society organized in 1911 by the outstanding quack of the century, Albert Abrams. The organization was an outgrowth of the American Association for Spondylo-therapy, the term 'spondylo' referring to the spine and not to the good old American word 'spondulix.' In this peculiar organization are assembled some of the conspicuous exploiters of borderline medicine in this benighted land. For example, in 1925 the chairman...