Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legal adage de minimis non curat lex never fitted U. S. legal proceedings very well, much less U. S. business. Accordingly, the National City Bank of New York has recently undertaken an analysis of the straw-hat business of this country, shortly to come into its liveliest season...
...hardly fair to load upon the universities blame which falls more justly upon the homes and schools. Some visitors have marvelled at the colleges' ability to awaken any spirit of scholarship in the stolid and uninterested material dumped upon them yearly. The patient camels scarcely deserve this last straw, an accusation of fomenting the very conditions which they are struggling earnestly, albelt impotently, to reverse...
Careful study of the records shows that an increased number of watches are lost during the examinations. The entries in the book also seem to vary with the season and the fashions. When straw hats are appearing in May no end of battered Stesons are apparently not counted worth searching for when lost...
...sentiment which this international tactlessness created in Germany was the last straw that broke the Centrist's back! It is a mistake, however, to think that the present government is anti-French. It is controlled by business, and big business favors an economic alliance between French iron producers and German coal producers. The Socialists also favor friendship with France and other countries, on sentimental and internationalist lines, however, rather than on economic ones...
...American mobocracy, having destroyed all personal tyrants, delights to impose the tyranny of custom upon itself. The latest outrage is a strict order that all good Americans must discard their winter footgear by the first of May, if they dare to appear upon the streets. The annual straw hat joke is perpetrated so thoroughly that to the vulgar mind a soft hat seems ridiculous after a certain date. Advertising and the mob's fear of itself have set this barbaric custom beyond the reach of common sense. If the boot and shoe dealers succeed in their resolution of attaching another...