Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gracious Thing...
Would it not be a gracious thing for the President to do-a beautiful custom to originate-that the President resign a few weeks or months before the end of his term of office (say, on Christmas or New Year's day or even on Thanksgiving) so as to permit the Vice President to become President of the United States for the interim until January 20-when the newly-elected President would take office under Amendment XX to the Constitution...
...Eastern kin may fear to visit Frisco because she is living in the "toughest part of town" (TIME, March 13). I'll calm her fears right off the reel. Neither she nor her relatives need fear any toughness in this city. There ain't no such thing any more. This town is as tame now as a long tailed lamb. All its toughness was rubbed out long ago along with all its romance and color by the Scizzorbills and Carpetbaggers who scrambled in here after the big Quake and Fire. . . . No, the little lady can assure her relatives...
...intelligent schoolboy knows that all this kind of thing makes all the people poorer than they need be and is sheer economic nonsense. One thing to do is to view with alarm, and this was ably done in Chicago last week by two potent Governors-Cochran of Nebraska and Stark of Missouri (see p. 21)-who discerned and decried a menace to "free America...
...heard a scholar who has written much and wisely on the art of the Italian Renaissance attempt, quite unsuccessfully, to cope with some of the more extreme forms of modernism; I concluded that his powers of connoisseurship were not translatable into the present tense. Not the least "dangerous" thing about the arts in our time is their demand that we see in them something more than the application of age-old principles to now materials, their claim that the new forms must inevitably change old conceptions of what constitutes "beauty", what constitutes indeed a work of art. Since...