Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a saying in Washington that the U. S. policy toward Nicaragua is handled at the State Department by an office boy. There is a sharper saying, among anti-imperialists, that the office boy is in the pay of Wall Street. An emanation from the State Department last week on the subject of Nicaragua appeared to prove the truth of at least one of these sayings...
...still with you," the people were shouting. A note of compassion blended with their joy at seeing him and made it a sharper cry than ever before. The Brown Derby waved as of old, but the old smile somehow did not come. The lips were compressed. They were trembling...
...people noticed then that there was "mo; of the old man" in Brother Phil than in Brother Bob. It was in his longer, square-cut face; Brother Bob's face is chubby-round, more like that of his stateswomanly mother, Belle Case LaFollette. It was in his voice, a sharper, stronger, more whip- cracking voice than Brother Bob's. It was in his bodily movements ? quick, alert, crisp; Sculptor Jo Davidson, troubled about the hands of his statue of Old Bob, caught exactly the expression he wanted when Young Phil sat down in the Davidson studio in Paris last...
...Marlborough, the several gay and wayward studies of Peggy Jean (Mr. Epstein's child). When they looked across the room at No. 21, they wondered what wild emotion caused the bronze woman to clasp her hands and open her mouth in so inane a fashion. Some of the sharper babbits decided that she was laughing at the companion works of Sculptor Epstein; then they looked at their catalogs and saw, "No. 21: Weeping Woman." They turned to the bronze face again. Slowly there crept into their minds the feeling that perhaps, in her slack eyes, her gasping mouth...
...characteristic of Mr. Baker that, while other crime commissioners were talking last week about sharper juries, harsher laws, fewer pardons and more citizen vigilantes with sawed-off shotguns, he was trying to put criminals into philosophical perspective, where he saw them as sick people whom a humanitarian society ought to cure. A humanitarian philosopher, a man so keen and kindly that he cannot bear to read Mark Twain because that heartless author put his character at such unfair disadvantages?could such a man be nominated to govern a nation? It would not be unheard of, even...