Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recommended the transfer of Prohibition Enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.* Now he was prepared to pass the whole troublesome question to Congress for solution. With the Law Enforcement commission and the proposed congressional commission at work on the same subject, many an observer thought he saw a gradual stifling of Prohibition as an issue for political agitation...
...been the buildings in which famed newspapers started life. Usually they were fire traps. Always they were filled with more "atmosphere" than cleanliness, more musty files than modern conveniences. . . . Such a building was the ramshackle, rickety home of the Chicago Daily News. Its dim-lighted rooms, its narrow hallways, saw the birth of the Daily News-a tiny newspaper-in 1875, watched that newspaper grow to its circulation today of 450,000, local evening rival of The World's Greatest Newspaper (blatant Chicago morning Tribune...
...Osborn of the Evening World was low man. He saw 86 plays during the past season, guessed right only four times more than he guessed wrong, expressed no opinion twelve times, scored .453. Just above him was large Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune, purveyor of false pomp and true drollery, who scored .616. Walter Winchell, Broadway slangman and gossiper, until last week of the tabloid Graphic (see p. 18) scored .790. He was just below dignified, grammatical J. Brooks Atkinson of the Times (.798) who, in turn, ran second to the winner, baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening...
...time of the Volcians, there stand tablets, one above the other, recording the epochs when the town changed hands. The Italians who took the place in 1848 (or 60?) left standing all the monuments even those which the Austrians had set up. I remember saying to myself when I saw this "Seenow these Italians have a wisdom that is greater than ours, they leave the Past, to speak for itself, that is impressive and respectable...
...student universally has objected to the mechanical aspect of education, that is, so many units, so many courses, so many hours of lectures, so many examinations as the components of a college degree. The student with initiative and the desire to study certain things as he saw fit has been highly irked at this situation, this production of brains by mass methods...