Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortnight ago, France, debt-bitter, war-proud, sent to President Coolidge an unpleasant letter demanding debt-sympathy. The letter was written by her 85-year-old "Tiger" Clemenceau's august furious own hand. It was unofficial, all the more notable. Spokesman Coolidge, vexed, shrewd, presumably saw that an emotional argument not answerable in kind is best not answered at all. Secretary of State Frank B. ("Nervous Nellie") Kellogg, as discreet as the famed simian trio, saw no evil, heard no evil, spoke no evil...
...Senator William E. Borah, he-man from Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, no simian, heard, saw, spoke. Said he: "Clemenceau's letter is so cruelly misleading in his intimation that we are undermining the independence of France, and so deliberately unjust where he refers to waiting for America to enter the War, and where he criticizes the United States for making a separate treaty of peace with Germany, and yet so pathetic in manifest love of his country, that I prefer not to comment at length...
...ancient Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar and Sennacherib were no sucklings in the art of nepotism,† but in Babylon, L. I., where hanging gardens are merely geranium pots, Joseph P. Warta, town supervisor, kept alive Euphratean tradition. He saw to it that his son, aged 17, was appointed Inspector of Roads, paid...
...picture can mount no higher. Hester Prynne and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale break the seventh commandment. The heavy rod of seventeenth century New England righteousness falls upon them both -upon Hester socially, upon Dimmesdale spiritually. In spite of numerous opportunities for sentimental errata, the film records truly, as the novelist saw, the inevitably tragic and ennobling consequences of their suffering. One might wish that the bravery and sacrifice of the Puritan community had been represented as well as its harshness. But, in other respects, the picture leaves little to be desired. Lars Hanson, Swedish actor, who plays opposite Lillian Gish, deserves...
...General Motors directors last week saw fit to make a 50% stock dividend. This reached almost 3,000,000 shares, makes the present capitalization about 9,000,000 (at current Stock Exchange prices, worth $1,800,000,000,* upon which 1¾% dividends will be paid beginning Sept. 11. The E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. and its stockholders will gain most. They hold somewhat more than 25% of General Motors stock...