Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before leaving Manhattan, the President-Reject had taken leave of the electorate one more last time. People had wondered what he would say-whether he would appeal for funds to pay for the effort he had led;* whether he would have a last fling at "influences" which may have beaten him; whether it would be a personal swan-song or a parting battle-tucket to the Democracy...
Both Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Chiang are U. S. college graduates-the former from Leland Stanford, the latter from Wellesley. Mrs. Chiang is younger than Mrs. Hoover, and it is no disparagement to say that her own family, the great House of Soong, is more potent. Mrs. Chiang's brother is Finance Minister T. V. Soong; one of her brothers-in-law is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, H. H. Kung; a second was the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, sainted father of the Nationalist Party which now dominates all China. Since Mrs. Hoover's father...
...lose, or draw, this marks Joe Forecast's swan-song. Never again will the Forecast pen disturb the virgin whiteness of paper. I pass on to bigger, better, and more lucrative fields. Whither matters not--sufficient to say that next year, and the years thereafter (unless Joe, Jr. suddenly turns intelligent) the CRIMSON readers must figure for themselves the outcome of the games...
...close to my heart the current prediction is. There is only one game today, as far as I am concerned. All my skill, shrewdness, and experience goes into this estimate--to say nothing of my reputed occult powers...
...Lack of spirit, did I say? Spirit, in the language of the barracks and of the dormitories and the language of these is quite similar), is nothing but a four-letter word meaning intestinal fortitude, an ugly little word known as "guts...