Word: sided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the Stanford campus women swarm. No co-eds these, but members of that most efficient administrative machine which enables President of Stanford and Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur to stand with such grace with a foot on either side of the continent. The Stan- ford Employment Office and Dining Hall System are chiefed and staffed by women, the Registrar's Office and Library have two men each directing a staff composed almost entirely of women, and in every nook and cranny of Stanford, women secretaries write, type, talk, phone...
...shame of the Groton mule. Just as Eton has its "fives" (a handball game played between the buttresses and against the walls of Eton chapel), so St. Mark's has its "cloister ball." Each evening after supper students swarm to the open cloister which bounds the fourth side of St. Mark's brick-and-timber quadrangle. A tennis ball is thrown across one of the iron tie-rods in the cloister roof, the object being to strike the succeeding tie-rod, catch the ball on the rebound. Historic are St. Marksmen who make a perfect score...
...Paris. The pomp, the swagger, the burning shame lit a blaze of hate in Clemenceau which nothing ever quenched. Bismarck, Wilhelm II, Stresemann?they were all anathema. "Stresemann was Bismarck's best pupil," growled the Tiger recently. "He has gotten everything for his country, while on our side everything has been abandoned. This will surely bring the next...
...each conference the President sat in his regular chair, slouched over in one side, smoking a cigar, with his head cocked at an attentive angle. In calling the meetings he showed realization that U. S. Big Business, no longer feared, has reached a position where it is looked to as the big benefactor in times of trouble. Only agreement of big business to maintain schedules can keep U. S. money flowing freely, send miners into the earth, steel workers to the tops of high buildings, loaded freight cars along new steel rails...
...established as Hart, Schaffner & Marx. The first year (1887) they did a $550,000 business; last year, a $35,000,000 business. Founder Hart survived his partners. Long interested in educational* and social work, he was a faithful donor to Jane Addams' famed Hull House on Chicago's Wrest Side...