Word: saviors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This move took a lot of wind out of the next figure on the scene, who was none other than Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, self-anointed savior of the Mississippi Basin. He blustered into town calling the Coolidge compromise plan "absurd," saying he had come (as chairman of the Thompson-invented Flood Control Conference) to put over the Reid bill. President Coolidge invited him to luncheon. When he heard about the Madden appointment and President Coolidge's willingness to waive the question of State-shared costs, except in principle, for the present, so that work...
...discussed the family, advertising, religion, voting, marketing, business-at various sessions, many held simultaneously; listened to President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley, of Yale, explain that "the only way to get low railroad rates is to attract new capital"; heard Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, of Princeton, Poland's financial savior, warn that it is time to face the probability of currency chaos caused by discovery of synthetic gold; heard Professor William Bennett Munro, of Harvard, urge science in politics, denounce "bawling at the voter"; chuckled when Professor Thomas Sewall Adams, of Yale, described the income tax as a "misplaced ideal...
...Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world...
...Where did you get them?' And when he heard-il bondit de 1'abime de désespoir au pinnacle de bonheur, and became perfectly bombastic and triumphant, as the Savior of his Country. . . . You see, he is a poet; Morgan is a poet...
...credit is this new play Speakeasy. He wrote it in collaboration with one George Rosener, sometimes an actor in musical shows. Together they evolved the tale of going, going, going, but not quite gone wrong young woman. The heroine's enemy is a wicked crook; her savior, a stainless Princeton youth who slays the enemy. The play is sordid, the cast plenty good enough...