Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artistic success. (Any damn fool can make money.) Dropped lines seem to be chronic with you now. That kind of "dropsy" is worse than your competitor's edema verbosum. And such crudities as "war boats" and wan dirge" make one suspect that, after all, there may "be a reason" for letters like the "famed" X. Y. Z. W. Something-Somethingelse's.f To one who fully realizes the beauty "swan-song" and the aptness inventor in of the "swan dirge" expression stands on a level with the Havana flower peddler, who sprays his roses with cheap synthetic perfume...
...been accused of insincerity in telling schoolchildren that statehood can be best achieved by their growing up as "good American citizens." To this charge, however, the Governor replies that "the very fact that statehood is absolutely out of the question at the present time is so much more reason why we should aspire to it the harder." As for the race question, the Governor has said: "There is less race prejudice in Hawaii than elsewhere. We live amicably and recognize that our problems are common problems rather than that they belong to any single race...
...father, the late Sir Jocelyn Gore-Booth, first had good reason to know his daughter's metal in 1900. She, aged at that time 32, roused his Irish tenants to rebel against him, and made use of the the clutches of his guardianship and flee to Paris...
...papers. For three hours they worked as only engineers can work-with a minimum of talk and a maximum of thought." A less exciting impression of what civil engineers do at a convention was given by John F. Stevens, the Society's stern-faced president: "The principal reason for the convention is to establish a bond of brotherhood. . . . We will consider routine business-aside from that nothing remains." But what John F. Stevens would call
...warfare between the new baseball head and the old. The conflict had apparently come to an end as far back as January, 1927, when after an undisguised Landis-Johnson falling out, President Johnson's indefinite vacation was announced-his health, which was undoubtedly bad, being given as the reason (TIME, Jan. 31). With the opening of the present baseball season (in April), President Johnson attempted to resume active control of his league's affairs. Evidently he found the task tasteless. His resignation last week was unexpected for there were no fresh battles...