Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...customary for retiring Commissioners to address the U. S. House of Representatives. But Lawyer Gabaldon had so many harsh things to say that he thought it best simply to print his farewell in the Congressional Record because, as he said to the invisible Representatives in his introduction: "Personally, I love you one and all . . . I do not blame you individually, gentlemen of the House . . . I only wish that our fate were in your hands...
...more terrible than the last. Bats, spiders, gorillas have been successful in providing thrills, and to them is added the octopus, the slimy vandal of the underseas. As the object of these beasts is to freeze the audience into that state of terror which precedes death and renders impossible thought, more and more frightful titles may be daily expected. Pithicanthropus erectus may soon overawe the spectators, or perhaps a pterodactyle; at the denouement they could, with customary plausibility, be found traveling salesmen who had cast such weird shadows by walking in the rain before a moving...
...average man in the street to tell you ten things of Herbert Hoover, and when he has thought for a while he may tell you this, or a part...
...given on Mondays and Fridays in Emerson D, will be "The Doctrine of God." The subjects of the separate lectures are "Man's Experience of God", April 23: "The Christian Experience of God", April 27; "The Idea of God in Christian Theology", April 30; "The Changing Background of Religious Thought", May 4; "A Transcendent God and an Evolving World", May 7; and "Suggestions toward a Modern Christian Theism...
...Lowden's reforms were sensational--brought Lowden fame. It is not strange that the Republican party, then preparing to break the eight years hold of the Democrats in Washington, should have begun to talk of Lowden. Nor it it strange that Lowden's own friends in Illinois should have thought the times auspicious. On November 7, 1919, an enthusiastic convention of Republican editors of Illinois meeting in the State capital demanded Lowden as a candidate for President. They let the East have a Vice President. "Lowden and Coolidge," read the ticket...