Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Nicaraguan Congress had rejected the new electoral law which the U. S. Marines were to chaperone into effect next autumn, under the Stimson agreement. President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg made up their minds to supervise the elections anyway, whether Nicaragua adopted the new law or not. Their reason was that the anti-American party in Nicaragua was scheming to embarrass the U. S. by making the latter's "pacification" program seem more illegal than ever. Since the Nicaraguan election does not come until October, the immediate necessity for 1,000 more marines at Managua was obscure, except...
...Lindbergh visit occurred when the visitor's swart compatriots made him the bearer of a concurrent resolution of their Legislature, addressed to President Coolidge, asking that Puerto Rico be separated from the U. S., as an independent State, so that its people should be "Americans" no longer. The reason given was that a "grave economic situation" existed. There were jobs for only one in three of Puerto Rico's 1,250,000 inhabitants and this, charged the native politicos, was the fault...
...problem lies perhaps in the segregation of the two groups, The scholastic elite deserve and should have the Tutorial System, the General Examinations, the Reading Period, and all that goes with them. They are the men who will ultimately take their degree with Honors, and there is no reason why they should be placed on the same plane with the men who waste their own and their tutor's time, prepare for their General Examinations at a tutoring school, neglect their Reading Period assignments and turn their backs on every attempt on the part of authorities to make intellectual pastures...
...Bridegroom" can't quite be laughed off, much as one may feel the urge. From pure politeness appropriate in a non-paying guest, this reviewer suppressed a nearly uncontrollable desire to hoot, jeer and shout "ham" during one of the worst first acts in memory. Then for no apparent reason Mr. George Kelly began to make sense through the mouths of a competent, but sorely taxed cast. The final impression was more than ordinarily disturbing. Here was a play, like it or not, and in its worst moments it brought to mind the old sentiment, "I wouldn't like...
Whoever selected the examples shown apparently deliberately omitted the most extreme phases of modern French art; there is little suggestion of cubism or expressionism or dadaism. For this reason the pictures represent rather a general undercurrent of taste that has remained definitely French, persisting through various vicissitudes, absorbing much of the point of view of the extreme experimenters and revolutionists, but still maintaining its characteristic lightness and deftness of touch. Thus the influence of the great innovators is obvious in much of the painting, now Renoir, now Cezanne, now Matisse or Rousseau or some other modernist; but beneath...