Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unaffected, speaks in a low quiet voice, has a twinkle in his greenish grey eyes. One can judge readily enough that he would not take a drink nowadays, not for any hypocritical reasons but because he would regard it as lawbreaking. In fact, he seems to be a likable sort, upright, not courting the limelight, not endowed with the graces that make for success in society?but likable. But of course this is not Andrew Volstead. Volstead is a myth. Volstead is a figure as noble as John Barleycorn is sinister, a powerful crusader, a tower of righteousness, a leader...
...many a harassed statesman the opportunity to blame the whole fiasco upon Brazil came as a sort of diabolic godsend...
...mostly revelations of people, beheld in their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...
...rural education division of the U. S. Bureau of Education last week mulled over a report issued by its colleague, the statistical division. It was an encouraging sort of report; said that since 1922 there had been an increase of 25.5% among women. 30.1% among men, enrolled in U. S. teacher-teaching institutions; said that there were 40,963 more teachers-in-the-making in 1923 than in 1921; that 11 new teachers' colleges had opened, making 382 in all the U. S.; said that, taking the average training period of all these institutions as two years, only...
...made early in the year. Directors of summer camps usually start in shortly after Christmas to select their men for the following summer. By the first of April the staffs are pretty well complete so that it behooves a man to start in very early if he wishes this sort of work. Some special qualifications are usually required. A man must be a good swimmer, must be able to sail a boat, must understand woodcraft, nature study, and it is usually desirable that be have some experience either camping or as an attendant at some other summer camp...