Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson last week showed the perfectly normal reaction of a U. S. statesman who has been called "unfriendly." He insisted that he was friendly, that he had acted from the friendliest possible motives in reminding Russia and China by identic notes of their obligation as signatories of the Kellogg Pact not to fight. The retort of Moscow's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinov that the U. S. note was an unfriendly act seemed to cause Statesman Stimson only pain. His soft answer was to make no direct reply...
...House Plan is that it can put a stop to continual "eating around", or rather that it affords an opportunity for congenial groups of men to have their meals, at board rates, in agreeable surroundings in the buildings in which they live. Perhaps it is not simply a contrary reaction which inspires the frantic defense of eating where one chooses and brings forth slightly ridiculous remarks about the spirit of democracy, the traditional freedom of the undergraduate, and--thunder from Plympton Street--the evils of the system. It may be that the upperclassmen have some sentiment about breaking established attachment...
...Action and Reaction", Professor Boring Emerson...
...stenographers visited than artists, that 28,000 arrived by private car, 32,000 by taxi. The majority came because "someone told them about it." The favorite room in the Museum was the Pennsylvania German* Hall and next the German bedroom. English paintings attracted 79.000; only 10,000 got any reaction from Oriental rugs...
Quickly the stockmarket bounded up somewhat from its depths. As if surprised at this reaction, Secretary Mellon feebly protested that his new tax program had not been proclaimed to boost drooping security values. He explained that, long in the making, the reduction was offered as a demonstration of the Government's confidence in the stability and future prosperity of U. S. business and industry. But so inescapable was the circumstantial connection between the market and tax news that few would believe the Secretary's official protestations. On all sides the new program was joyfully accepted as President Hoover's reply...