Word: questioners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
However, although liquorish Colombian revenues have been curtailed, the non-liquorish revenues pledged to repay the loan in question still offer "good security...
...Utopian to imagine that the hordes of greedy politicians gathered there would understand or even hear speeches addressed to their Father in heaven. Why then should reverend gentlemen of several sects hold up their faiths for a mockery by delegates who thought denomination was two words? Such a question was implicit in the further writings of that impious buffoon who criticized the preachers...
This democratic country: let us not forget that we live in a nation where democracy is the enduring keynote of social and political life. And that brings us to the larger question--has Harvard fitted us to live usefully in a democratic country, to serve as leaders of a democratic people? We hear comparatively little today of democracy, and much of big business; but the United States will not be ruled forever by the men who have money. The time may be not yet, but the day will come when those who exploit the people shall no longer deceive them...
...York's Rochester is a comfortable city. Its population, about 325,000, is not too large for its ample area; it is pleasantly near Lake Ontario; it typifies much of the sturdy Republicanism, the rural conservatism, which mark upstate New York. If it is a question of noted sons, Minnesota's tiny Rochester may boast her famed surgeons, the brothers Mayo, but New York's Rochester answers with Cameraman George Eastman and is content. Good music and much education contribute to its civic culture; civic cleanliness is upheld by the barbers and laundrymen, who set aside...
...record, his whirlwind courtship, his lowly birth, and even about his cooks, but not a word has been printed about his skill with rod, reel, and creel. It is understandable, pe haps, that the attention of the public might be side-tracked temporarily on minor issues, on the Prohibition question, rebellious farm bloc, or a yelping Senator Norris, but can this important qualification for the highest position this country can offer a man be neglected for long...