Word: tends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politically we are monarchical, whereas Europe is either aristocratic or democratic. We tend to give our elected Presidents, Governors and Mayors the authority of absolute monarchs, and to suppress the importance and dignity of our Congress and Legislatures. It is an interesting argument, even if in all probability it is an inaccurate one, and in the course of it we are unexpectedly told that our political system is less corrupt than the British and Continental systems. This is not because our politicians are any better, but because we keep a collective eye upon them and "the man who exposes corruption...
...done. Even when the main structure is erected and in use, there will be odds and ends to tend to, to straighten up and tidy away or put to possible use. Last year, for example, contests in several sports between winning class teams of the University and Harvard of Princeton were promised, which, for one reason or another, never materialized in some cases there were obvious difficulties, but this year it is hoped that these can be overcome. Outside competition adds an interest, an excitement, an incentive which is both desirable and valuable. That for the near future. For today...
...girls of Barnard and Teachers' College by Professor Albert T. Poffenberger, Columbia psychologist. The results were confirmed by more numerous subjects at the 71st Regiment Armory Perfume Show. With men the order was lilac, French bouquet, jasmine, oriental bouquet, rose, violet. With advancing age, men and women both tend to prefer more pungent perfumes than lilac, though young girls like them too. Slim women and all young men want faint perfumes...
...decline to answer any question upon the ground that my answers may tend to incriminate me, because there is nothing in any of the facts or circumstances of the lease of Teapot Dome which does or can incriminate...
...long at the beginning. All through the book the very graphic word picture of life in the Long Island smart set is drawn with fascinating dexterity and every situation is handled with unusual finesse. Mr. Towne's evident delight in character, delincation and even in ordinary description tend to minimize the importance of the conventional plot--the old eternal triangle, although when he changes his scene of action to France during the war, omitting for a few chapters his continual tirade against that senseless, useless, time-eating game of bridge, interest is shifted for a while to what happens, rather...