Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Women. Its president, Mrs. Lena Lake Forrest of Detroit, made her annual address, saying: " There seem to me to be but two issues or two programs before the world today-one a program of peace, the other a program of war. Which are we going to accept ? . . . The biggest thing that we business women can do is to use our influence and every effort in every way that tends toward the peace program of the world." Judge Florence E. Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court spoke later in a similar vein: " We have certain laws about war, but none against...
Protests of Negro organizations from many parts of the country, descending about the ears of a Senator, caused him to change his mind. Senator Capper of Kansas is leader of the farm bloc and of the "marriage bloc"-if such a thing there is. In the last Congress he brought forward a Constitutional Amendment and a supplementary bill to make marriage and divorce laws uniform throughout the country. One of the provisions of the bill prohibited " marriage between members of the white and black races or of the white and yellow races." Letters of protest-from Negroes have since poured...
...again, because it has that certain intangible felicity of manner about it that has frequently been called style. Of its kind, it is a minor classic. The Critics. Hilaire Belloc in his preface: "The Wallet of Kai Lung (a predecessor to Kai Lung's Golden Hours) was a thing made deliberately, in hard material, and completely successful. It was meant to produce a particular effect of humor by the use of a foreign convention, the Chinese convention, in the English tongue. It was meant to produce a certain effect of philosophy and at the same time ... a certain completed...
...fact impressed him more than anything else. The day after his arrival he reported to the police. The officer at the station-house actually apologized for inconveniencing him! " I doubt," he said, " if anyone in Germany would believe such a thing possible...
...thing to give credit where credit is due; it is quite another to imperil one's livelihood by excessive feelings of gratitude. Dempsey and Kearns, in their blind enthusiasm, have given to Tom Gibbons the key to his one vital shortcoming. He lacked that ounce of ferocity, that ecstasy of endurance that Nuxated Iron, according to the implication of Dempsey's statement, alone can give...