Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish my name to be used in any contingency. I am too old* to run for President, and I would neither seek nor accept the nomination." Last week Mr. Hughes said: "I am not a candidate in any sense. I am keenly disappointed by President Coolidge's decision. ... I stand by the statement I made last...
...Hearst on the witness stand is a pleasant combination of Sam Weller and Titus Oakes. Not quite sure what the fuss is about, he is perfectly willing to tell the gentlemen all they wish to know. He doesn't like to think money has been paid to senators, but he has seen the documents. Of course his six million dollar holdings in Mexico have nothing to do with the case even if the series was planned when Calles menaced foreign capital last spring. Why, he is endangering his interests for the public's good. He realized there might be International...
Students who feel the reins of faculty supervision somewhat harsh and undemocratic, who stand in dread of the possibility of compulsory chapel, and who protest loudly at the meager allowance of cuts afforded by the department heads, might sleep a little easier and enjoy life a little more thoroughly after reading a few excerpts from the Harvard College regulations of 1734. Some of the most interesting--when viewed from this distant perspective--follow...
...arms, seeing that Poland is on the League of Nations Council and that Lithuania is also a member. Our country has little over two millions population- small, as compared to Poland's 29,000,000, but in such an event the whole nation would sink its differences and stand shoulder to shoulder, and I know that the peasantry would fly to arms to repel the invader." When news of Pilsudski's charges reached Kovno, harassed Premier Valdemaras promptly denied that Lithuanian troops had been mobilized against Poland, then ordered his bags packed, and set out for Geneva...
...antedates Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, his three operas known in the U. S.) when the afterglow of the Mightier Richard still blinded the young composers of the day, sending tunes from Tristan and Siegfried watered and warped into a thousand insignificant attempts. But Strauss even then could stand alone. He quoted, to be sure, from Rheingold but he quoted deliberately, when it suited him to have Wagner pop out of the back-ground of his libretto as the great forerunner of himself?the great Strauss. The story, as it was played, followed an old Dutch legend of a mid-summer...