Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avis a Democratic irreconcilable? proposed and the Republican majority assented. Several weeks ago Senator Reed presented a resolution, one of many, for an investigation. The resolution lay contently in the Committee on Audit and Expenses. But Reed, whose anti-League of Nations activities had moved former President Wilson to suggest that he be not reelected (and who nevertheless was reelected in 1922 by an increased majority), had resources. His anti-League proclivities gave him a certain standing in the Republican camp...
Premier Poincare had the French experts on the Committee acquainted with the views of the French Government. He instructed them to incorporate into any plan which the experts might suggest the present Franco-Belgian control in the Ruhr; to propose Allied or international supervision of German tax-collecting and expenditures; to suggest control or supervision of German resources, such as customs, railroads, tobacco and alcohol monopolies, coal production, which should be set aside for payment of reparations; to make it clear that France will have no objection to other Allies joining her in utilization of the Ruhr...
Against so comforting a theory one dare only suggest a few possible criticisms. The first is that a salary of $23 a week may not indicate failure. How frequently have our captains of industry pointed with pride to the fact that at twenty they were still sorting mail, in the outer office...
Much of the present conflict is due to the popular tendency to confuse evolution with Darwinism. The idea of evolution, as opposed to special creation, was known long before Darwin?even to the Greeks, in fact. All that Darwin did was to suggest a plausible explanation of how it might have occurred. Some parts of Darwin's explanation have since been called in question. The influence of natural selection, his favorite theory, is not agreed upon; his emphasis on Lamarck's doctrine of the inheritance of characters acquired by environmental factors such as use and disuse is now largely discredited...
Both these artists depend upon color for their ultimate emotional expression, and Fish especially handles her medium with dashingly modern and exotic, not to say erotic, effect, combining it with glittering overlays of gold and silver and with rich arabesques of pen-and-ink design which suggest alternately Leon Bakst and the late Aubrey Beardsley. Hope Weston is more seriously thoughtful and mystic, in her endeavor "to visualize Khayyám as he appeared to his contemporaries-to study his mind before FitzGerald gilded his thoughts...