Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the United States Senate, four years or so ago, appropriated from public funds, $7,500, to be paid to Senator Green of Vermont. It is contended that this amount was voted to the Senator that he might pay his surgeon and doctor bills incident to treatment of a serious disability received when hit by a stray bullet fired by warring bootleggers on historic Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. I am satisfied that this is a correct statement of fact...
...moment, the least serious of the two cases is that of Danzig. The Treaty of Versailles established this Free City under the guardianship of the League of Nations. Poland has been trying, not unsuccessfully, to make Danzig Polish in everything but name. Poland objected to Danzig's signing the Kellogg treaty, and in the interests of keeping peace at his great peace party, Mr. Kellogg agreed that Danzig should not be invited. Diplomats who weigh fine points can and will interpret that as a U. S. acknowledgment of Poland's authority over Danzig...
...Prince saw are unpalatable both to the Government and to the powerful interests that support the present administration. The Prince of Wales is distinctly unpopular with the mine owners. Something like consternation has been caused among them at what the Prince revealed on his tour. It is a serious coincidence that almost before the Prince returned to London a regular newspaper barrage was laid down [by the Conservatives] with a view to discounting as far as possible the facts as to the condition of the miners that were put under the searchlight of the Prince's inquiry...
When these jestings of his are represented to the outside world as the reflections of a serious thinker, it is no wonder that the impression has been startling...
...adverse criticism which has come to hand so far has been too evidently based upon a superficial interpretation or a second hand acquaintance with the substance of the present Lampoon. In so far as this comment has ignored the serious issues below the surface, it is preposterous...