Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry John was religious. For more than 20 years he was superintendent of a Methodist Sunday School, although he had been brought up a strict Lutheran. His parents wanted him to become a minister and this religious attitude he kept throughout his life. How sore his heart when word was brought to him that smart-Alex Pittsburgh saloonkeepers had wanged out a ribald ditty at his expense. Nigger-prancers,* bum- mers, street sheiks, tenderloin riff-raff were chanting all over Pittsburgh, all over...
...meals), that is the equivalent of two weeks' meals less $1.50, or $.43 an hour. These men were to work under a professional headwaiter and a steward, who are under the supervision of the Superintendent of Dining Halls. The waiters so employed would at all times be subject to strict discipline...
...newspapers began polling Episcopal prelates on the question of modification of the Volstead Act. There was a division of opinion, but evidently the strict prohibitionists were in the majority. Out of 24 who answered an inquiry by the New York Times, only five advocated modification. Two other bishops in favor of modification were found by the industrious (and wet) New York World. A few more declined to comment...
...everything works out in strict accordance with all arrangements for the next two and a half generations, there is no doubt that our agreement with Italy is considerably less favorable to us than the one which Italy made with...
...fiftieth anniversary number of the Lampoon, fresh to hand, bears unhappy but strict witness to the fact that senility in the lbis sets in at an age even earlier than in humans. It is not that we lack the most profound respect for the Lampoon tradition, but it would seem that the lean years have arrived in the purlieus of Mount Auburn and Plympton Streets, for seldom have we previously been favored with such a monumental display of gratuitous imbecility, such wholesale vulgarity of the common or garden variety, or such lamentable paucity of wit and artistry as is represented...