Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most noteworthy features of the extravaganza is the costuming, which is original and colorful. The whole staging is no elaborately done that it gives the performance a perfect finesse unusual in productions of this type...
...proper performance of the duties of the position, is ordinarily found only in the college graduate. The preponderance of graduates of Yale, Princeton, and the University, in the secretaries of the first class--and speaking generally, the same situation prevails among the other three classes--indicates conclusively that the type of men and type of education found at these universities is peculiarly fitted for a diplomatic career. On the other hand--and speaking as a Harvard man--I think the predominance of men from the three great universities is, on the whole, unfortunate. I believe that the Diplomatic Service should...
...have now waked up to the insidious inroads of the "Pussyfoot" campaign for prohibition in their bonnie land. Long advertisements with two grinning black cats at top and bottom are confronting the readers of Scottish newspapers demanding "a firm stand for self-determination" and in asking, in bold, black type. "Why not prohibit Pusayfoot?" Scotch blood is running hot over the sheer intemperance of the prohibi...
...yesterday to start flying within a month. Last summer their aeromarine scaplane was disabled and practically demolished while on a flight from Marblehead to Lake Geroge. The accident was caused by a defective connecting rod. The society is now making arrangements to purchase a new plane of the same type...
There is a type of politician and a certain type of newspaper that seek to advance their own interests by appealing to the passions of ignorant men. There is always a jealousy of those who have by those who have not, and when a poor man is told that his poverty is not due to laziness, ignorance, lack of ability, or lack of thrift, but to the alleged fact that he has been oppressed and robbed by bankers and profiteers, he is ready to excuse himself and place all the blame on somebody else. By constantly hearing the great bankers...