Word: restfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after practicing law for a while in Manhattan. President Wilson made him Assistant Secretary of the Navy and asked him, in 1918, to run for Governor of New York. The War was on and Mr. Roosevelt felt he was needed abroad. He suggested Alfred E. Smith. The rest is well-known ? how the Harvard graduate proposed the Tammany graduate for President of the U. S. in 1920; how the Harvard graduate was himself nominated for Vice President of the U. S., but lost; how he again proposed the Tammany graduate in 1924, and finally saw him nominated...
Professor Lipman believes that the ancient germ spores have been sealed up in minute cases, similar to the cocoons in which larvae rest. It is well known that microbes can live through great heat or cold, and remain quiescent for long periods. But the age of Professor Lipman's rods astounded even him. He duplicated the experiment with organisms from Pliocene rocks, one to two million years...
...Would-Be Gentleman is an excessively poor translation of Moliere's title Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; the rest of the modernized adaptation with which Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre opened its season was not so strikingly bad but it somehow made the old farce act its age. Only the scene wherein M. Jourdain superintends ironic and Turkish nuptials is as funny as the arty members of the audience thought the rest...
Hoarse as a crow, his right hand in bandages, Nominee Curtis arrived in Chicago from his Western stumping trip. He had had two days' rest at home, in Kansas, but was still "very, very tired." Nevertheless, he said to the Speakers' Bureau: "Use me where I can do the most good." He took his sore finger and throat to a doctor, spent an afternoon at the horse races and then started off stumping again. After a side trip into Indiana, his itinerary called for a swing through the fermenting Northwest-North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin...
...Philippine Islands, is another, and at Molokai, Hawaii, a third. In memory of the late General Leonard Wood, his friends are soliciting $2,000,000 for a leprosy hospital and clinic at Culion. They have a little more than half the needed money; are prodding the country for the rest...