Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tears stood in the eyes of Rupprecht, now an aging, disappointed man. "My heart bleeds," he said, "as I see how under the rule of the Republic the beautiful structure of the past is being demolished, piece by piece. . . . The new rulers, animated by a fanatic hate, without understanding of our traditions" or our holy culture, are undermining the whole structure of the Fatherland...
Rotary was founded 22 years ago, when Percy Paul Harris of Chicago called three friends into his office and discussed the Golden Rule with them on the evening...
Race-track johnnies recalled that Man o' War won a "walkover" (one-horse-race) at Belmont Park in his prime, that Exterminator captured the Saratoga Cup in 1921 without opposition. Walkovers are made possible by the racetrack rule that once a race is scheduled it must be run, weather permitting, unless each and every entry drops...
...cardboard, figures--the Big Man in the school. Big Men there will always be, of course, in a manner of speaking, but the possibilities of the grand style are now being drained away. No longer is one man, by virtue of combined athletic, political and social prowess, to rule, in the pages of fiction at least, the community of which he is a member--carried about the place on the shoulders of his class-mates, looked up to with awe and veneration by newcomers, toadied to by all who have, in the slightest degree, the lust for power. His hour...
...Hovey, apparently, proves the rule by his exception to it. A man of property, in a hurried moment, he may have swallowed the bait of "red" alarmists, those people who see in the lectures of a courageous leader of thought or in the ebb of the New York market the fires of a great and devasting uprising, lead by the "reds". Who the "reds" are has yet to be decided. Perhaps Mr. Hovey will find that when he discovers why "socialists" are per se wicked...