Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show if I could be sure I would not see pictures of an ex-Cabinet officer. . . . "If a man is too solemn, they'll think the whole weight of the world is on his shoulders. If he is gay, they'll think he is frivolous. The only thing to do is 'be ourself.'. . . "I have not a sore head or a sore toe. . . . "I have no personal feeling against the President. I am yet his dependable friend and supporter. . . . "No one need waste any time worrying about the ex-Attorney General. He will take care...
Stationary but not unoccupied, the tax reduction bill remained in the Senate Finance Committee, preparing for its appearance in the upper House. The most important thing which befell the bill was the displacement of the Longworth compromise tax rates (maximum surtax 371/2%) by the original Mellon rates (maximum surtax 25%). This was done by vote of 8 to 7. Two members of the Committee were absent. One of them, Senator LaFollette, would have voted with the Democrats against the change. The other, Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois, Republican, was classified as "uncertain." In their double absence, however, the thing...
...believe we should let any person speak at Harvard, and drag their ideas out into the open. If you will not allow a man to speak it shows you are afraid of him. The thing to do is let them talk and subject them to criticism. I have never found that students were over-ready to accept everything that was said to them as true...
Every morning the first thing when he gets up--for the process of daily rising has settled on him like a habit--P. G. Wodehouse goes to the door and looks for the milk bottle which he left out for his daily supply of humor. Sometimes the humor is richer than other times. One morning not so long ago he found the humor in the bottle very rich indeed; solid cream; turn it upside down if you don't believe it. So then he sat down and took the cream out in spoonfuls and put it all into the book...
...only surprising thing is that there should be any delay about making a slight departure in the type of speaker. But this can be explained by the Governing Board's desire to give time for the solidifying of undergraduate opinion so that audiences may be assured...