Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...journalist is Carleton Beals, now special correspondent in Nicaragua for The Nation, liberal, trenchant, enterprising Manhattan weekly review. Although Correspondent Beals was both prolix and tediously descriptive of scenery in his early despatches, it is now possible to cull one excellent purple passage and then get down to the solid news of the first interview obtained by any U. S. journalist from General Sandino. Mr. Beals, author, lecturer, and onetime schoolmaster at Mexico City, writes...
...undergraduate school at New Haven and is not conscious that he is an integral part of his class, the natural reaction is to seek out men of his own stamp rather than resort to the company of the fellow next door. Instead of having a small and solid class unit, the tendency is for similar men of like interests to get together in their own tight little worlds and carry on to the exclusion of others. The transition of fraternities into eating clubs has fostered the development of these cliques, contrary to all the traditions and democratic principles of Yale...
...city manners and sophistication, who typifies the challenge of a restless urban civilization to the long-continued domination of a thousand Main Streets: this is the man who now bids for the nomination of a party whose strength, ironically enough, lies chiefly in the old aristocracy of the Solid South...
...majority in a convention which will seat more than a thousand delegates. And it is also necessary to remember that Lowden is one of a large number of gentlemen in IIIinois who have a standing quarrel with Big Bill Thompson, and that this fact may deprive him of a solid delegation from his own State
Since both men are solid, rational Teutons, there ensued argument and negotiation which continued for one hour, two, three, three and a half. Herr Langkopf, without ever removing his finger from the detonator of his bomb, stated passionately a case which was soon to rouse the sympathy of almost the entire German press...