Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...root of the trouble was the same as in so many other historic complications. The last straw was the refusal of the Minister of Public Works, under whose jurisdiction the excavations fall, to admit to the tomb a number of ladies, wives of Mr. Carter's collaborators, who had been invited to attend the formal opening of the sarcophagus. But this was only the culmination of a long series of "harassing interferences and insults," according to Mr. Carter...
...with him in the formation of an ideal school--three hundred selected scholars and a faculty of untrammeled professors." There would be no regents or trustees, no hierarchical graduation, and presumably no outside activities. Apparently Professor Taylor advocates something like a return to the old system of sitting on straw and learning when and where one willed...
...then another on account of an actor's misdemeanors or an actress' imprudence, it must be comforting to know that the Brazilians prefer American films because they show "American life", and never fail to point a moral! To the jaded American move-goer, this moralizing is usually the last straw which urges him to demand his money back; while his object in going at all is often to get away from the realities of "American life" and lose himself in the make-believe world presented in the cinema...
...were guests at an old-fashioned house- warming at the home of M. D. Bryant, my brother-in-law, in Traverse City, Mich. It was reported that I did the do-see-do, swung my partner and promenaded away while Jep Bisbee fiddled Money Musk and Turkey in the Straw...
Good Housekeeping, one of Mr. William R. Hearst's magazines, is conducting a straw-vote-for-President among the women of the country. With a count of 81,303 ballots, President Coolidge led with 52,274 votes. Next came McAdoo with 6,611 votes. And after him, in order, Ford, Hughes, Wilson, Hoover, Underwood, Hiram Johnson, Pinchot, La Follette, Borah, Lowden, W. J. Bryan, John W. Davis, Ralston, Glass, Alfred E. Smith, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mellon. Tied for last place (with one vote each) were Ring Lardner and John Davison Rockefeller...