Word: suggestiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hammonds did not suggest the appointment of her husband as state health commissioner, nor has she suggested other appointments, not first recommended by men supposed to be friends of clean government. The resolution [to dismiss Mrs. Hammonds] was introduced by a Senator whose fondest hope is the destruction of the Governor. Only three votes were mustered on the resolution demanding Mrs. Hammonds' dismissal. Then the sensible Senate voted to expunge the ridiculous resolution from the records. Mr. Johnson has many faults, among them a lodge-room belief in the honesty and decency of men. He is learning politics rapidly...
...those who have suggested for inclusion among additions to the Radcliffe library "Why We Behave Like Human Beings", one may suggest "Easy Steps For Little Feet" evidently published for their benefit in the March issue of a local periodical...
...some of them ask me. The most popular query however, is how I can enjoy smoking when I can't see the smoke. But to that question, I always ask in turn if that is the questioner's reason for smoking. At the invariable answer of 'yes' I always suggest that such a person might save money by sitting on the curb and watching a chimney...
...that and things in general, that the impressions of things which are gained during childhood continue to tinge one's thoughts even after they have proved to be wrong or mistaken. True enough this is no new idea--the Vagabond does not flatter himself so much as to suggest that--but it struck him rather forcibly last night when he noticed that Professor C. K. Webster was going to speak on Palmerston and the Eastern Question at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard 3. When he tried to think what he really knew about Palmerston, the humble writer...
Whereas, the President, representing the negative, was able to cite dozens of specific defects in the bill and to suggest dozens of specifically evil consequences which, it could not be denied, might arise. Nevertheless, no Martian and few Earthmen could say that the President triumphed as a statesman. For this reason...