Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...struggle and paralysis; heard a man they did not admire take the oath of office of President of the U. S. Through their minds must have flashed memories of the glorious days of 1913, when the party of freckle-faced Jefferso and hard-cider Jackson came back to power. Happy days. . . . Josephus Daniels laughing in the first meeting of the Cabinet "Isn't it great! Isn't it wonderful...
...only to earn money but also to snatch for the mantle hia father-in-law had dropped. He missed it, rent the Democratic party. That other William, Bryan the Great Commoner, died in Dayton, Tenn., still denying his descent from long-tailed ancestors; with him vanished a sonorous power, which, for nearly 30 years had sometimes led and had always disturbed the Democratic party...
...York's progressive Governor, now bids fair to bar him from the politicians' ultima thule, the President's chair. In the South, Alabama's Catholic-baiting Senator Heflin of the untiring lungs, leads a chorus of Pope-fearing Protestants, others, more tolerant, seeing what power the Catholic Church holds over the minds of their Irish cooks and nursemaids, wonder whether any Roman Catholic can be an unbiased and independent servant of the State. Last week, two sober magazines, the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic approached the question with dignity and understanding. In an editorial...
...education of an engineer should then include a mastery of certain scientific principles, a training to develop the power of reason in terms of such knowl- edge in its application to practical conditions, practice in expressing his ideas clearly in drawing, in writing and in speech. He should have a broad general education, and an open mind...
...although of course had Mary Garden been inclined toward anything but prismatic gowns she could have done the same and have rated, if not the Post at least the Hearst sheets. But it remained for the pride of Kansas City to garner both publicity and economy. Whoever is the power behind the throne in guiding Miss Talley through the mazes of an operatic career has a large amount of sagacity and a peculiar insight into the minds of what she may safety term "her public." It matters not at all if he visualizes her as a cross between a football...