Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real issue between the President and the Board is one of authority. Its basis is historical. The Shipping Board was set up as an independent semi-judicial body, to act as a sort of Interstate Commerce Commission of the Seas. The War came. An immense Government merchant fleet was built and operated by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, control of which Congress had vested in the Shipping Board. With the after-War shipping mess, Mr. Coolidge began to look around for a way out of the tangle. He decided that the executive functions of the Board (managing and sale...
...Press seemed to be that it had been rather disappointingly free from any new or sensational proclamations. Said the London Times of Mr. Baldwin: "Not a good stage manager." It added that in a modern democracy, a certain amount of "publicity," even if it is of a "modest" sort, is absolutely necessary. Said The Observer: "He spoke in the reassuring vein of a cultivated Micawber." There was a general feeling, however, that the convention had endorsed most of the Conservative leader's views by rising and cheering him loudly as he declared: "When the party wants to change...
...same sort of thing, written with more sophistication than Wild Geese and more dramatic power, staged on the virgin soil of Kansas. Here the man conquers, despite an anemic wife and a son who deserts...
Since no particulars of Architect Pope's plan were announced, people speculated on what sort of memorial this was to be. They thought...
...rule he shares his rooms with one or more friends, and when they and their acquaintances drop in--as they are wont to do--studying becomes out of the question. More and more the student is beginning to utilize his room for bridge, or the victrola, or some sort of a good time; and when he feels the need for study, he repairs to the spacious and comparatively peaceful reading room at Widener. The consequences of this condition of things are deeper than appear on the surface. By transferring all intellectual activity from his living quarters to the college library...