Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word, M. Hoover is the first business man in a country of the biggest business men in the world. Perhaps he may never move crowds with his eloquence nor the world with his declarations in fourteen points. But it is certain that, with him as President, America will never suffer cold, nor hunger, nor privation...
...that June, the convention month, is here, may I submit the following slate for your consideration? With this bunch conducting our affairs for the next four years, I am quite sure our institutions would never suffer again...
...Conscience may suffer deviation in various ways. One of the most common is by small concessions to one's own inclinations, known not to be right, but not thought of much consequence and self-excused at the moment. Stevenson's tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is popularly thought to be the well-worn fable of a struggle between a man's better and worse natures; but to me it has always seemed far more subtle. Dr. Jekyll was not the good part of the man. If it had been it would no doubt have prevailed over the baser...
...Grand Street Follies are built upon the eminently sound principle of burlesquing all recent attractions at Manhattan theatres. A sophisticate must loudly giggle, when Albert Carroll comes on the stage impersonating Laurette Taylor or when Dorothy Sands pretends she is Ina Claire, lest neighbors in the audience suffer from the illusion that he has not viewed the original from which the parody derives. Yokels, too, are compelled by their anxious timidity to give deceitful titters. Since almost all Manhattan theatregoers fall painfully into these categories, it was perhaps unnecessary for Albert Carroll and Dorothy Sands to make their burlesques...
...attitude of modern big business: "It is important to our country that Mr. Ford succeed. He controls so many sources of raw material and specializes in low-priced cars which are essential and important that if he were not in the business, the economic progress of our country would suffer. It is an actual fact that this progress depends in no small measure upon Ford being in the field of production." Then, with what might have been either sarcasm or concern, he added that he was surprised at Henry Ford's statement that he [Mr. Ford...