Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This move took a lot of wind out of the next figure on the scene, who was none other than Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, self-anointed savior of the Mississippi Basin. He blustered into town calling the Coolidge compromise plan "absurd," saying he had come (as chairman of the Thompson-invented Flood Control Conference) to put over the Reid bill. President Coolidge invited him to luncheon. When he heard about the Madden appointment and President Coolidge's willingness to waive the question of State-shared costs, except in principle, for the present, so that work...
Four earnest, weary, middle-aged men motored and trudged hither and yon through muddy snow of the Monongahela Valley last week. At moments they were self-important, at others selfconscious...
...that they alone will benefit from the substantial additions to all scholarships and fellowships of the college and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Inasmuch as the cost of education is now to be commensurate with the cost of living, the University will become in a measure more self-reliant. None of the increase is to be used for aiding the program of expansion territorially but will be turned to the service of instruction, for one may expect that the opportunities for research will be increased by additions to the teaching staff, which should itself profit materially from...
...From the stereotyped "slayer" headline slapped on in the office, from the position given the item on the Press' pink-page, it was difficult to tell whether Editor J. Y. Chidester of the Press appreciated how hideous an event had actually taken-place or with what powerful, self-controlled simplicity the correspondent had done his duty when he wrote the following...
...breeder for $15. Later, he rebought her and sold her for $1,250, a fraction of her present value. The prizes offered in dog shows, unlike those for horse races, promise no great profits; these are to be secured merely by owning a dog whose puppies or self will be accepted in exchange for large sums of money by fanciers who wish to be honored by other fanciers...