Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge sent an answer to Wyoming, in a certain way. He told his secretary what to say, and let the secretary sign the letter. This procedure, after "I do not choose" (August) and "My wishes will be respected" (December), seemed intended to show that the Everlasting Nay had now become a matter of office routine. Secretary Sanders wrote: "The President directs me to say that he must decline to grant the request of the committee...
Governor Smith took his time replying to this outburst, but another fight sprang up before the week was out. In the Senate, Indiana's Robinson went off on a wide tack to show that five onetime members of President Wilson's cabinet had later entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny. It was the rankest sort of Senatorial innuendo and included the smirking suggestion that Inquisitor Walsh had been an intimate of Doheny's. Stalwart 38-year-old Senator Tydings of Maryland chewed hard on his chewing gum until Senator Robinson sat down. Then he repeated the Harrison performance...
James G. Dunton, in C'EST LA GUERRE (Stratford Co., Boston, 1928, $2.50) has collected a group of short stories written by men who actually went through the war. Written some ten years after "the recent unpleasantness", the stories show how hazy the unpleasant and grim side of the war has become, though leaving still the scores of amusing incidents to color the author's reminiscences. Although all the stories deal with the war, there is a wide variety of style and type. The collection is a good one and makes an excellent change in diet for the reader...
...perhaps significant of the changed attitude of undergraduate Harvard that while the proposed dining hall, the War Memorial Chapel, and football has left the student body cold, an anonymous note at an hour examination has served to set the spark for a train of letters that show in some cases considerable thought...
Since that time, taking into account those subscriptions made voluntarily since January 1, a total of 1,383 men have contributed $43,312. Record of the high day of the past week in point of contributors show that 265 men gave $7,125. In point of amount, the best day records a total of $8,019 from 191 men. In 1927, the largest number of contributors for a single...