Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poison gas at Tom Johnson and Newton D. Baker, two really great men, brings to mind a little poem, towit: "A little dog barked at the big red moon That smiled in the evening sky. The neighbors smote him with rocks and shoon- But still he continued his ragful tune. And he barked 'till his throat was dry. But, soon 'neath the hill that obstructed the west, The moon sank out of sight; And the little dog said, as he laid down to rest, "Well, I scared it away all right." L. V. LA TASTE...
...philanthropists. The cost of tickets for card parties, bazaars, etc., pockmark the old stipend. A politician has to be charitable and charity tugs not at the heart, but the purse. ". . . Our extravagances are expressed before the galleries. No sightseers observe the Cabinet in argument, excitement or perplexity. You cannot tune in on the White House static. Before a Presidential Proclamation, the controversial clashes have been hushed in the sanctity of the Cabinet Chambers. The Ancient Order of Sphinxes or a Convention of Lynnhaven Oysters is no more efficiently safeguarded from eager ears than the Cabinet. . . . "The worst that...
Humming a little tune, Governor Johnston received the petition and read it through. Mrs. Hammonds stood at his elbow listening, then moved briskly back to her desk. Governor Johnston frowned at the incomplete list of signatures and said: "This is peculiar conduct for men who claim to be in good faith. . . . Well, boys, I'm much obliged to you and I'll look it over...
...boom vibrated over Illinois, over Indiana, over Ohio, and set quivering the editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer, a newspaper which once had individuality and still has prestige. Its editors threw off their eyeshades; reached for their fifes, ever ready among the lead pencils on their desks; and shrilled in tune with the Tribune: "This institution [University of Wisconsin], like many others, is said to be honeycombed with radical doctrinaires, internationalists and aliens. The boys have been led to believe that they should refuse to submit to military training and discipline. Why cannot all such academic proponents of essential sedition...
...bred people are the only ones who build blood of leadership caliber the figures are reassuring. There was great wailing in the halls of sociology not long ago when it was discovered that Harvard and Yale and Radcliffe and Wellesley were only doing their duty by posterity to the tune of a fractional offspring. The as gumption was made that the best blood of the country, meaning the figures who would be the leaders of a generation hence, would come almost exclusively from college ranks...