Word: suggested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generation the scintillant acumen of Lord Birkenhead has won him the name of lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies. While Lord High Chancellor of Britain (1919-22) he was revealed as a sphynx possessed of corroding scorn and a face so immobile as to suggest paralysis. To round out the quatrefoil of his quadruped characteristics, the Earl of Birkenhead habitually walks with a sodden heavy stride, his hands held dangling before his chest like the paws of a performing bear. But when he rises in public debate or sits down to a private tete-a-tete...
...some friend of mine in college came to me and said he wanted to go into politics, I would suggest first that he take a course at the law school and pass with and the understanding of political life, if they seek these pleasures in no his bar examinations. This would give him not only valuable training, but also an occupation when defeated, as he surely will be at times. I did not take a law course and am sorry...
...Secretary of State Kellogg's secret proposal for compromise between Chile and Peru as to what shall be done with the disputed area of Tacna-Arica, claimed by both for half a century (TIME, April 19 et ante). The Text: "The Secretary of State has the honor to suggest that in the interest of international peace and a cordial rapprochement between the parties [Chile and Peru], they consider the advisability of a mutual and joint sacrifice whereby either...
...offer as reason, the right of free speech and free assembly, guaranteed in both the constitutions of the nation and of New Jersey, has been denied not only to strikers, but to reputable lawyers and pacific clergymen. That such a situation can exist, even under protest, would rather suggest there are, still extant, reasons for wondering at the reflection of function to which democratic government has attained...
...other object that to fill out an outline of events; at least a mastery of the outline is sufficient to attain high distinction in the department, and the greater virtues of the subject an imaginative reconstruction of the past, the reading of whatever moral lessons it has to suggest, the application of it to the civilization of today are generally left to the devices of the student himself. Indeed it is admittedly difficult to escape altogether from the old-fashioned school of episodically historiography and particularly in the more elementary courses the temptation is to give the student the outline...