Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people against themselves by judicious enactment of laws restraining the vicious and those devoid of self-control from inflicting upon themselves and others the consequences of self indulgence and vice, your timely expose of the Taft letter, which to many of your readers was unknown, was I am sure, very much like the discovery of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln in 1857 applauding the Dred Scott decision; or Theodore Roosevelt's posthumous missive condemning the Sherman Anti-Trust law; or a communication of William McKinley condoning the destruction of the Maine...
...Alfred E. Smith, wife of the Democratic presidential nominee, and invited her to be guest of honor at the Federation's luncheon last week. Then she wrote to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the Democratic nominee for Governor of New York, and asked her to make sure that Mrs. Smith had received the invitation. Then she wrote to Mrs. Roosevelt and said: ''Please accept this as an official recall of the invitation...
Professor Morgan says that the question is not whether Sacco and Vanzettl were innocent, but whether they had a fair trial. To be sure, that was the question before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for decision; but the question before the Governor was the broader one raising the issue of actual guilt. For the very purpose of the pardoning power vested in the governor is to enable him to extend executive clemency to innocent men and women who have been convicted after a fair trial. If the governor and his commission confined themselves to inquiring of the jurors whether...
...heart of the home garrison. Even the modest veiling with a dash is insufficient to conceal the glaring weakness of undergraduate support tendered the Yale men on the eve of battle. Those who know the real story behind the debaters appearances tonight, will have trouble in back the emotion sure to be evoked by this latest "Laugh Clown" drama. The home fires are burning vigorously enough but with the unwholesome green flame of dissension...
First prize ($1,500 & gold medal) went to André Derain, a French modernist. His picture was a still-life of two dead game birds on a table, with a rifle beside them. Composition and brush work are sure; technique is deft...