Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have no recollection of ever making that statement and I am sure I never...
...chief pronouncement in the Senate on prohibition came, however, from Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, a wet, who knows how to stir up trouble and is pretty sure he knows how the people of New Jersey stand. He delivered a long oration favoring modification of the Volstead Act. He quoted Stephen Leacock...
This play however differs sharply in one prominent particular. It is proved that the employer was really a good sort after all (a bit weak, to be sure), and the girl a nasty little schemer. All this comes out in the final courtroom scene where the girl is acquitted by the kindly male jury only to have her attorney (after the verdict was carefully won) turn on them and tell the truth...
Very pleased, very amiable, was Editor Howland. He had left his state under compulsion but left it, to be sure, for an enviable position at the head of a famed magazine, whose previous editor, Glenn Frank, has passed on to the much-trumpeted presidency at the University of Wisconsin.* "When I was younger," he said, "I vowed that I would dedicate my life to Indiana. . . . Now I know there's nothing the matter with Indiana. . . . I have come to New York determined to like...
This time, however, as Congress meets, it is turning dawn in international relations. Crescent light reveals Locarno, reveals the League of Nations, vigorous if not triumphant, and the World Court, formidably attractive. To be sure, the new light has not yet gilded politics, nor has the personnel of Congress yet admitted any degree of conversion to a new conception. But the crescent dawn reveals a surge, a wave, a recrudescence, of international vision and, it may be, of altruism. Certainly there is health in hope...