Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Jumping Jack" Jones (Tipperary-born, but M. P. from West Ham since 1918): "I refuse to withdraw it. I now gladly leave this House." (He pointed at the Ministerial bench on which sat the Premier and several of his Cabinet.) "You are all murderers! The, whole gang of you!"
Witless of the Japanese proverb, "A grain of rice is riches to a starving man," one Nassib Makaram, leader of Syrian tribesmen, rolled in his palm a grain of white rice. He, Sheik Nassib Makaram, was famed from Damascus to Cairo, was called the calligrapher without peer. The letters he...
"Super-Government." The hue and cry that followed was, of course, loudest in Democratic newspapers. Leader of the pack was the alert New York World. Governor Pinchot's "s u p e r-p o w e r" (electricity) plan was recalled and the term "super-government" was coined...
The Commons- ¶Applauded heartily a proposal Vernon Hartshorn, Welsh Laborite, suggesting a round table conference between Laborite and Conservative M. P.'s to settle the coal strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.). The Government promptly spiked this proposal. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary for War, pointed out that...
At the University of Wisconsin, the pensive man in the presidential chair was Dr. Glenn Frank, onetime magazine editor and lecturer. He had been there only a year but that had been long enough for him to decide that the major problem of modern mammoth state universities is how to...