Word: understatedness
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Peering from behind thick-lensed spectacles, Nathan Leonard Amster. a Rumanian-born director of Manhattan Railway Co. ("The El") and head of a stockholders' committee, arrived late at the annual meeting last week. Behind him trouped 30 angry stockholders armed with stacks of proxies. Though a meeting chairman had...
Since 1885 the C. P. R. has expanded by land and sea. Its assets exceed $1,371,000,000. Yet they are understated if anything. Its main Montreal-Vancouver line runs 2,893.6 miles, but the 2,044 C. P. R. locomotives pull freight and passengers over 22,438 miles...
Died. Charles Edward Montague, 61, satirical author (Disenchantment, Right off the Map, etc.), for a quarter century chief editorial writer of the Manchester Guardian; of pneumonia; in Manchester, England. At the outbreak of the War he dyed his greying hair, understated his age to enlistment officers, later fought in front...
Arrived in the U. S. by air from Canada Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 39-year-old Under Secretary of State for Air. He had been inspired to visit the U. S., he said, by his conversations in England with the then Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who had glowingly...
In the CRIMSON'S timely exhortation some days ago to maintain more carefully collegiate neutrality it was urged that "it is the duty of every member of the University to err on the side of understatement rather than of excess and agitation." The CRIMSON'S attitude is proper, but this...