Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propose to give you a constitution of the type the Irish people themselves would choose if Great Britain were a million miles away." Last November fiery, wild-eyed, Manhattan-born Eamon de Valera, President of the Irish Free State, bit these words off as distracted Britain stood on the brink of the Edward-Simpson crisis...
Nevertheless at noon on May 1, Commissioner Moss dillingered New York burlesque by announcing he was renewing the licenses of none of New York's 14 burlesque houses because "the type of performance, the language used, the display of nudity are coarse, vulgar and lewd and endanger public morality . . . and are a disgrace to the people of the City of New York...
...Harvard teams and a team representing the Boston Rugby Club will clash this afternoon at 2 o'clock on Soldiers Field in a Seven-a-side Rugby Round Robin Tournament. As far as it is known this will be the first time that such a type of rugby has been played in this country. The game is very fast and open, with the teams substituting every five minutes...
...talk with Mr. Santayana it is as difficult to pigeon-hole him as a "type" as it is to pigeon-hole his philosophy. He's not an American, though he was educated there; he's not a Spaniard, though he was born one. He's more the ancient Greek somehow or other brought up in the 19th century England. Though he dislikes "the taste of academic straw" he's a scholar who zealously fools his work. He has the greatness of genius, and yet the common sense of one richly human. Like the ancients, he would make philosophy...
...industrial interests learn the value of the support which financial interests can give." As to Commissioner Douglas' proposal for more competitive bidding for certain new issues, Banker Hall cited the Interstate Commerce Commission, which after long study concluded that except on equipment bonds-a highly-standardized type of security-the railroads could do better playing along with their own bankers...