Word: steering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, death softens the asperities of politics, is it not possible for us in the atmosphere of forgiveness and magnanimity which now prevails by reason of the death of a beloved President to rechart our course in international affairs so as to steer away from the shoals which block our way to world peace, and to find a road to that Christlike ideal which I believe lies in the heart of the average man of the world...
Throughout the Winter there was noted in the tangle of traffic in the New York theatre district a certain automobile radiator mounted with a sweeping pair of steer horns. Little boys, old men, actors, girls, prosperous personages stopped to gaze agape at the primitive ornament. " Must be advertisin' something" was the preliminary reaction. Closer inspection revealed that it was advertising something...
...Austin's world's championship cowboy contest takes place at the Yankee Stadium, New York, Aug. 15 to 25. Here then is the greatest primitive spectacle of the struggle of man against beast that the laws of our land permit. " Bronk " riding, steer bulldogging (diving from horseback to the horns of a wild steer and throwing it by the application of human leverage to the sweeping horns); calf roping; trick and fancy riding for both sexes; steer riding; relay race; and cowgirls' bronk riding are featured. There is certainly nothing on the stage; little in the movies...
...cases by local issues, is not a complete repudiation of socialistic tendencies, but is an expedient adopted because socialism in practice has been found an idea with too few heads to comprehend. There still remains in opposition a strong liberal element which will ride the wagon but not steer...
...obtaining as preceptors or Inspiratiors men who are grounded in nothing but their own and other's opinions. We feel this word "liberal"to be no guarantee against a muchness of talking with a minimum of thinking. It is from this danger that the summer converations must steer clear. If they consistently do they may be of some benefit: if not and more sounding boards for so much more noise and fury