Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoy TIME immensely and I think you improve every week. But in the article on Mrs. Hoover in the last number, where you say, "The small-town lawyer's wife has been succeeded by the cosmopolite's wife," you seem to depreciate Mrs. Coolidge. When have we ever had a more gracious lady in the White House, or one more universally beloved throughout the land? I, too, admire Mrs. Hoover, but I never did like the cry, ''The King is dead! Long live the King...
Sirs: In your issue of May 6, page 18, you say regarding the trial of Mary Ware Dennett: ''John Cowan, one of the jurors, was later interviewed by a reporter. He gave the following account of what took place: the first ballot was 8-4 for conviction, the second 9-3, the third 10-2. At that point a court attendant warned the jurors it was after 5 p. m. A fourth ballot was quickly taken: 12-0 'guilty...
...dangerous to say that the Harvard plan is an attempt to be British, an attempt to ape the Oxford-Cambridge program of vigorous intramural sports and one annual inter-varsity meet in each sport. It is dangerous because it may not be true. And if Harvard were accused of something that was not true, and accused by a university they refer to as "one of our better provinces," the resultant reaction might be a race riot between Harvard students and the hinterland. In all events, Harvard, would be fortifying her athletic record, which of late has been none too rosy...
...address the Commencement gathering on almost any subject, from What is Wrong with the World to May Four Years in College, is an ancient one, and used to bring out enthusiastic competition for the honor. But for the past few years there has been a reluctance of Seniors to say any more in the Commencement ceremonies than is necessary, and the invitations to the rostrum have brought a meagre response...
There is very little in the remarks of two or three young men which appeals to a large audience uncomfortable in the warmth of a June morning. The speakers are unknown to most of their hearers, too familiar to the rest of them. What they say is bound to savor of the graduation school of elocution heard on a thousand platforms in this same month of June, which no weight of tradition can make more valuable...