Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marvin. I agree in the main with R. W. Graham, but the most effective way to deal with Heflin is to apply Irvin Cobb's "The Thunders of Silence," thus removing him from the pages of every newspaper of consequence. By ignoring him you obliterate him, to the relief of the nation...
...Passed the bill conferring the Distinguished Flying Cross on the crew of the Bremen. C. Debated farm relief...
Three weeks after the event, Mr. Brand issued an alibi (see LETTERS). He had "gone over" his back files. "I find," he said, "that I was advocating, as a means of agricultural relief, the production of sugar and wool in the United States that we were purchasing abroad." Mr. Hoover said something to the same effect at that time so Mr. Brand thought Mr. Hoover would make the best Secretary of Agriculture possible. Later, he discovered that Mr. Hoover's ideas did not coincide with his own. "So my hopes for Mr. Hoover were blasted," said Mr. Brand...
...hideousness are frequent, gallantry omnipresent. A cool sense of the pictorial dominates a style metaphorically fine (if you think airplanes "steam by"). Non-belligerents will enjoy an atmosphere of accuracy (if you think English soldiers wear "mufti"). The suggestion of continual pageantry runs pleasantly throughout the book-a relief from recent War stories, whether patriotic or sordid. Author Jacks might have been to the Crusades...
Robert Gilmore '31 is scheduled to take the mound against the schoolboys, with E. B. Samborski '31, heavy hitting right-handed pitcher, serving in the relief role. Robinson will be in the box for the visitors...