Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there ever has been any reckless, careless way of handling Government funds, the evidence in this case certainly shows it. It is not the duty of this court to pass on those matters. It is not interested in them. Here you have seen for yourself the setup where billions of dollars are being expended and yet it is sent down here, and you say 'go ahead and build your own setup, you go ahead and handle it.' How you are going to handle it, the Lord only knows...
Euclid Avenue was filled with old familiar faces, some of whom Cleveland had not seen since 1924 when her new Public Hall needed no WPA renovation and Calvin Coolidge was nominated. C. Bascom Slemp from Virginia, David A. Reed from Pennsylvania, Ralph E. Williams from Oregon, Walter F. Brown from nearby Toledo, Jim Watson over the border from Indiana, Charles G. Dawes from Chicago, came trooping in. So did the Elephant's ladies, Alice Longworth from Cincinnati, Ruth Hanna [McCormick] Simms, now from New Mexico, Ruth Baker Pratt from New York. Crowds seethed in hotel lobbies. Fat men sweated...
...disturbed only by the subdued and relentless scratching of examination correctors' red pencils. The difference between a D plus and a C minus and a C plus and a B minus comes into sharp focus and assumes an importance entirely out of proportion with that which it has when seen from the point of view which presents education as a mater of filling minds with knowledge and training them...
...certain lonely spot on the slopes of Mauna Loa. Before daylight Forester Bryan was on his way to that spot. He knew that for a week an alarm had been out for Private Edward Deal, missing from an Army rest camp. Sure enough, at the spot he had seen in his dream, Forester Bryan found dirty, ragged, wretched Private Deal, saved his life...
...Transgressor are strong indications that many an individual still regards the cameraman as more important than the camera. Last week such individuals watched with interest the latest subjective newsreel, Edmund Wilson's Travels in Two Democracies. At first sight merely a notebook of scattered impressions of things seen & heard, it has a cumulative effect less personal than Sheean & Co., more sharply focused than Mark Sullivan, more impressive than either. Ticketed as a literary critic, Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson a few years ago found his position too academic in a day "when accuracy of insight, when courage of judgment, are worth...