Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Lodge (Rep.) of Massachusetts: "Good news. It shows how the tide is setting...
...Senator Johnson, there is always the possibility that the Democrats will call a higher suit. Mr. Coolidge represents the solid conservatism of the country; Senator Johnson has apparently espoused a flabby liberalism; in the background may lurk the man--Democrat more likely than Republican--who will ride the rising tide of radicalism and reform into the presidency...
...acres granted to the League for that purpose by the Greek Government. But none of the money was spent on relief, with the result that the refugees, although they are likely to be able to support themselves six months hence, have no means to tide themselves over the coming Winter...
...colleges is that of being "drawn into the common life." But the prophets and apostles of the Ku Klux Klan propose to draw them in with a vengeance. Princeton is the latest to be told that she cannot remain "in her own little eddy of oblivion while the rising tide of the greatest moral and political movement sweeps by". This particular champion of the Klan, being a lady as well as a "bishop," is naturally strong on sweeping. She points to what she believes to be the evidence that the Klan is about to sweep through the colleges...
...lady of eighteen writes a novel in four months and calmly asserts that it came to her out of the air, communicated by so-called automatic writing, the average grownup hesitates, comments McFee. Yet if one knows, the road from Colchester to Mersea where the whole coast at high tide is compacted of lonely islands, "of a quiet loveliness in summer with salt winds driving thick white clouds athwart a sky of palest azure," he has come close to England...