Word: pedals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandeur of isolation, and then, too, will Jefferson and Mallinckrodt be near enough the Charles to permit Winthrop and Eliot to breakfast in leisure. Radcliffe and Harvard will take a Sunday afternoon spin on a "bicycle built for two," while the more ambitious undergraduate will in one short hour pedal to Wellesley. If Harvard is to be Anglicized, the process may as well as not be complete. The Master of Lowell has set a noble example: may all Harvard bravely follow his lead...
...take marriage with Sara Powell Haardt, two and one-half years ago, to mellow him. At 52 Editor Mencken is little changed-stocky, slovenly dressed, wearing the best cravats that 50? can buy, still fond of draught beer and Baltimore seafood. He enjoys playing the piano with the loud pedal pushed down, singing bass in his cups, playing the fiddle Saturday nights in a parlor orchestra. But he keeps more regular hours now, leaves Baltimore less often. He reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn once a year, enjoys talking philosophy and theology with Baltimore priests. For shrewd Bishop James Cannon...
Most people have never driven a modern automobile. They do not know what free-wheeling is. They still think one has to press a pedal to start the engine and then another when shifting gears. They think shifting gears silently is an accomplishment. They do not mind it when the car roars in second or reverse. They fiddle instinctively with the choke when the motor splutters. They would be startled to see a dashboard with no choke...
...certainly enjoy your clear and fool-proof accounts of the progress of the national election each week. I note that some people have accused you of being pro-Roosevelt, etc. What do they want you to do? Publish a garbled account of the trend of the times, and soft-pedal the fact that the country is on a great Democratic tidal wave? If you did that very thing you would destroy the very thing that makes TIME the one magazine that so many of us depend on for a real account of what has happened. A very common remark these...
Like Secretary Mills in Boston, Secretary Hurley did not mention Prohibition and his party's Resubmission plank. These omissions were accepted as an indication that nationally the G. O. P. would soft-pedal this issue, at least until the President speaks out on it for himself...