Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group of players. The part, circumstances, and events form an adequate, if not a completely convincing framework, and for the first two acts at least the action is dynamic. The problem, if one exists at all, is a bewildering combination of theology, various kinds of complexes including the inferiority type, and the power of suggestion. If taken seriously it is ineffectual, but the fine touch of comedy withstands even the assaults of the dread term, atheism...
...type of man composing the delegation is evident from a statement by one of them to the press: "Hitherto, the men at the head of the industry and the men at the head of the unions have come to America to study your production costs and your operating methods, but we are, I believe, the first who have actually put aside our overalls and left our lathes and our work benches to come and see for ourselves...
...expansive. His voice, when it breaks into portentous periods, is solemn and his words are chosen from the old school of eloquence and denunciation. Ever and again in previous Congresses he rose to make interminable forensic attacks on the money trust, on the power interests, on this and that type of oppression of the poor, the weak and the farmer...
...felt enough of a journalist to ask his half-brothers for $10,000 to start a paper in Cleveland, and they thought enough of him to produce it. With a dinky little engine, a few boxes of type, a small hand-me-down press, an $18 editorial writer, $20 business man, $15 humorist, two reporters and $12 for himself, he started the first U. S. newspaper that a laborer or mechanic could buy for a cent, a condensed sheet for business men, a complete sheet for business men's wives-the Penny Press of Cleveland. He resolved to "keep close...
...undergone his trying experience at a trial that was evidently of very legalistically technical nature. They were careful to remember that juries at murder trials are called upon to exercise moral rather than intellectual discrimination. In fine, they bore in mind that Foreman Conant had flayed but one type of juridical procedure. Within that scope his comments seemed most pertinent...