Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago Mrs. McCormick was shouting from Illinois platforms against the Small-Thompson combination, which helped Charles S. Deneen take her husband's Senatorship from him shortly before he died in 1925. Her cry then was: "Turn the rascals out!" Her explanation for associating herself with Mayor Thompson, and his friend, Governor Lennington Small of Illinois, now is: "Party regularity was a Hanna creed, you know...
...years ago, M. Sensaud de Levaud, French inventor, knew this. Since then, he has been tampering, tinkering, planning, pondering and putting together bits of metal which in final form turn out to be a sensible automotive vehicle with no middle parts to fuss over at all. The motor transmits propulsive force directly to the rear end without intercession of transmission gears...
...teams will play on the present Freshman fields and on the fields behind the Business School. There will be games every day at 3, 4, and 5 o'clock and if enough men turn out there will also be games at 2 o'clock...
...Command to Love. The balance of power in international politics is not maintained by heartless artillery alone. Every French diplomat to the Spanish court, for instance, avails himself of the services of a seductive military attache. Since all state treaties are in the hands of men who are in turn in the hands of their wives, it is the attache's business to handle the wives. Such, at least, is the idea that forms this comedy which probably would seem all right in French, though it was originally written in German (by Rudolph Lothar and Fritz Gottwald), but sounds...
...renew himself. He must first of all let Christ into his heart, and by that I mean that he must attain absolute humility. Then, he must share the beauties and joys of life with his friends, and not keep his happiness to himself. Finally," concluded Bishop Slattery, "he must turn his entire attention to making over one man, and that man is himself...