Word: savely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...altered his homeward journey solely for the good of the Utah's sailors, Washington rumored and conjectured reasons for the alteration. Some said that Mr. Hoover was returning because of unexpected opposition to supposed members of his cabinet-Andrew Mellon in particular, or he was coming home to save the Kellogg-Briand Peace Treaty, or the trouble was that Hubert Work, Republican National Committee Chairman, had planned to take "patronage" (i.e., job issuing) out of Congressional hands and into the committee's and his own, and Mr. Hoover was going to Washington to quell the protests of indignant...
Arguing particularly against the theory that the law is sacred as such. Dr. Butler declared: "Laws are not made by Legislatures or by courts except in form, save insofar as the general will accepts them. No law which has to do with human thought or speech or conduct can by any possibility be enforced. . . . If it be urged that all statutes . . . that have the form of law have also by reason of that very fact the full force and authority of law, then one can only sigh and repeat softly the immortal words of Mr. Bumble...
...floods!" cried the farmer. "Save us from the waters, Divine One! The floods are rising in Saitama. Save our farms! Speak only a word to Amaterasu-0-Mikami, that She may dry up the floods...
...early as last June, however, a group of educators formed a committee to investigate and combat propaganda. These, linked by the hysterical name of the Save-Our-Schools Committee, boldly pledged themselves "to defeat the present dangerous attack on our schools and colleges . . . an adaptation as it were of the Monroe Doctrine to the American educational world...
...names of such famed educators as Professor John Dewey of Columbia, Bishop Francis J. McConnell of New York, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn of Wisconsin found their places on the committee, but confronted with N. E. A.'s measured investigation, the Save-Our-Schools Committee seemed to lose zeal...