Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerning Governor Smith of New York, Mr. White remarked: "There will have to be a change in the attitude toward big business before Al Smith can ever go to Washington. Personally, I con- sider that Al Smith represents the biggest, best, keenest and cleanest brain in American public life to-day-and I am a Republican...
...result of his studies in Moscow and Paris, Dr. Karpovich attained degroes equivalent to the American Ph.D. Interrupted by the war from his studies toward a professorship, he turned to politics. In 1917 the Karensky government sent him to this country as Secretary for the new Republican State at Washington. Since then Dr. Karpovich has been several years in Washington and New York, liquidating the affairs of the defunct Kerensky administration...
...theory that extremes generate their opposites. Yet from a pragmatic standpoint at least, this pendulum-like motion of events seems surely to hold true. It seems therefore hardly improbable that in its broadest aspects the German Republic was the direct result of the German Monarchy, moving as much toward radicalism as the empire held to the standard of conservatism...
...News is no more than logical. To establish each department as a unit would be to strength both; and neither would be to strength both; and neither would lose touch, since the title of Yale University would, as it does now, include both "Sheff" and the college. This tendency toward simplification is but another example of the present Oxford movement. When colleges cease to fear the restrictions of names a great advance will have been accomplished. Tradition will remain inviolate as long as the spirit of an institution flourishes. And certainly the News platform does not point to the contrary...
...Teddy, coal-black boiler room cat at the Metropolitan Opera, last week momentarily disrupted a performance of Turandot. As the curtain rose for the third act, Signor Lauri-Volpi, my stage lover, was disclosed supposedly asleep on the steps of my palace. Teddy advanced toward him across the stage. Box-holders jerked their opera glasses into position. Others opened wide their eyes. There was tittering, laughter and one great solemn guffaw. Teddy prowled on. Lauri-Volpi rose to sing. The audience roared. I, offstage, about to go on, had hard work to keep the severe demeanor of the cold Chinese...