Word: supports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington society turned fiercely upon Mrs. Eaton, refused to accept her, slandered her morals. President Jackson took her side, as did Secretary of State Van Buren. Van Buren and Eaton resigned from the Cabinet as a protest, Van Buren becoming President later, thanks to Jackson's support, which he gained largely in the Peggy Eaton case...
...finer citizens and gives parents better results from their offspring. The parochial school is doing what the parent may not have time to do himself in this sad workaday age of ours. The fact that laymen are perfectly willing to pay taxes for our public schools and then support at the same time parochial schools indicates how Catholic parents feel; they make sacrifices to maintain both. The public schools for those who want them; the parochial schools ditto. Plumber Sanders brazenly declares, "I am a member of the Catholic Church and in years gone by !" He's probably...
...present independent majority. Pontificating in the Daily Mail, Lord Rothermere declared: "The only sure way of keeping out the Socialists (Laborites) is in the union of the two anti-Socialist parties under David Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin, and this combination of Liberals and Conservatives would have our heartiest support...
...brings her blandishments to Belasco's "Mima", fairly swarming with devils and nightly shaking the stage when its steel hell collapses in the denouement. There is Katharine Cornell in a poor dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel, "The Age of Innocence", the star at her finest and given brilliant support in a stuffy play by Arnold Korff. Alice Brady graces with effective acting the rather trivial play based on the old badger game, "A Most Immoral Lady...
...policy of the athletic authorities to encourage any one sport at the expense of another. If football happens to be the form of athletic activity that the majority wishes to participate in, there is no reason for requiring them to enter some other field merely because it needs support. The aim of the Athletic Association is to offer an opportunity for those who wish to participate in sports to take part in whatever game they prefer. It is not that the best men be assigned to the activity most in need of them: but that they be allowed to enjoy...