Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sequelae. 'Doorman McKenna was obliged at once to stand aside and let 15 frantic newsgatherers go tearing and tumbling down the corridors of the high school to transmit the twelve-word shock to an unsuspecting world...
Since the Coolidge-Kellogg policy of "hands off religion" has thus been strongly reaffirmed, who does stand ready to champion with might the Roman Catholic cause in Mexico...
...smiles were to welcome the audience and remind it that the Institute is wholly voluntary and unofficial, deliberative and not for action. "We are forever tinkering the machinery of Government," said Dr. Garfield. "Why not let it stand as it is ... when by the simple device of conference we may accomplish all that is desirable? Conference, the educational method, is the most potent . . . because it dispels ignorance and drives out fear; it discovers men of good will and substitutes the common welfare for common avarice...
...President Calvin Coolidge and Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg both announced entire satisfaction during the week at the stand taken in Geneva by U. S. Chief Delegate Hugh S Gibson (TIME, June 27, et seq.). Similar expressions of content were heard at the British Foreign Office; and statesmen said with great candor at Washington and London that the U. S. and British delegations would renew their negotiations at Geneva on exactly the same basis of unyielding deadlock as before...
...week; after the third the theatre would be pulled down and my score burned. To those who were pleased with it, I would say: 'There, go and do likewise.' " Such was the sublime abnegation of Richard Wagner, who, at the age of 60, was pleased to stand on his head in the presence of a visitor and boast "that is more than...