Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gladstone . . . [i. e. Queen Victoria's great prime minister] founded the great tradition, since observed by so many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity: in public to speak the language of the highest and strictest principles and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...
...generally acknowledged and rather serious fact that fewer and fewer of the right sort of men enter American politics every year; and the more evident this fact becomes the less inclined are college men to consider public life as a career or to take any personal interest in the Government. The country is rich and prosperous; the college man who is a lazy individual is perfectly content to let the Government sink as it has been sinking gradually for many years into the hands of selfish not too greedy and fairly competent men. A recent novel of Washington life only...
Four American undergraduates have in the last month committed suicide. Not one of them died without leaving behind some sort of explanation of his act, ranging from the extreme lassitude and disillusion of one to the boundless curiosity of another. Not content with the motives of the actors themselves, the American audience has already begun to psycho-analyze their individual and collective decease...
...before the House of Representatives aims to avoid in future some of the cases of individual hardship that have been incurred from time to time under the hard and fast rulings necessary to control the rush of foreigners to this country. One of the most recent instances of the sort was the admission of an alien whose permits were satisfactory while his wife, American born, was detained by officials under a technically. The Stobbs proposal purposes to deal with difficult situations by allowing the secretary of labor to grant at his discretion some of the many unused permits that remain...
...This sort of thing happens over and over again. 'Having ears they hear not'," Mrs. Florence Milner, who came here ten years ago to open the Farnsworth Room in Widener on December 5, 1916, and has remained in charge of it ever since, told a Crimson reporter...