Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When U. S. citizens last focused their attention on Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, pre-War Ambassador to the U. S., he was sailing toward home and Fatherland, while the U. S. War-time press thundered accusations that his agents had encomposed every crime from espionage and arson to letting loose deadly bacilli among the perambulators in Central Park, Manhattan...
These Metropolitan stars may not be able to sing any better than their predecessors but at least they are as amusing. Only the enchanting personality of Geraldine Farrar could have carried off such an enormous coup as is Miss Talley's although of course had Mary Garden been inclined toward anything but prismatic gowns she could have done the same and have rated, if not the Post at least the Hearst sheets. But it remained for the pride of Kansas City to garner both publicity and economy. Whoever is the power behind the throne in guiding Miss Talley through...
Every minister and college editor from the Atlantic to the Pacific has accused President Coolidge of failure to pursue a definite policy toward Nicaragua. Even a reader of the tabloids could probably explain the grounds of their contention. Surely one gets no evidence of a consistent policy from the utterances of the State Department nor the official spokesman," nor even from the Republican journals of opinion which seek to interpret these Delphic utterances to a misled public...
...opinion for wide open doors to all satisfying minimum requirements in state or endowed institutions, which they represent, some such institution as the Junior College is necessary. Giving a two-year course and an A. A. degree it should be a unit in itself and not merely a step toward a professionalized college. Into it would flow that lower third in private colleges and that lower half in state colleges who usually drop out after the first two years anyway under the present system and who are adapted to further general education beyond high school...
...undoubtedly too much to expect American politics to turn back toward the great tradition of English statesmanship set by Peel and Gladstone, which set principle before party, reform before office, or toward the precedent set by the first President of the United States who intentionally gave up the reins of power at the end of his second term. But it is an insult to the electorate to allow mere vote-getting to be so brazen...