Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with much satisfaction that I saw Senator Bingham's letter in TIME, Nov. 7, for this showed what I had long hoped was the case ? that I have chosen as my source of news information the periodical to which busy and important people are subscribing. I am old, retired, and unimportant. I have all the time in the world to read all the magazines and newspapers in the world. But I don't. I take my TIME and save my time. It is comforting to find that an old brain is not so cracked but what it still knows...
...given a verdict just the opposite of the Supreme Court's!... What do people like us know about such a case as this?" Mrs. Bailey said that Lawyer Martin W. Littleton of the defense looked "slick" to her, and "more like a teddy bear than any man I ever saw." For Mr. Fall she said she felt a little sorry. "He seemed so feeble and depressed...
When Statesmen Quezon and Osmena saw and talked with President Coolidge they were disappointed. President Coolidge had changed his mind, he said, about transfer from military to civilian administration, just yet. True, the Philippines need much of a civilian nature-in agriculture, education, road building- but President Coolidge thought advisors from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Interior and Commerce could furnish such help at once without necessitating a transfer...
...characteristic of Mr. Baker that, while other crime commissioners were talking last week about sharper juries, harsher laws, fewer pardons and more citizen vigilantes with sawed-off shotguns, he was trying to put criminals into philosophical perspective, where he saw them as sick people whom a humanitarian society ought to cure. A humanitarian philosopher, a man so keen and kindly that he cannot bear to read Mark Twain because that heartless author put his character at such unfair disadvantages?could such a man be nominated to govern a nation? It would not be unheard of, even...
...Lloyd George's Liberals; became First Commissioner of Works, then Minister of Health in Lloyd George's War cabinet. Later he was to bolt the Liberal Party, declare himself a Conservative and fret Lloyd George into sneering that he had abandoned the Liberals because "he saw poor prospects for an ambitious man" in sticking to them (TIME...