Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, too much is expected of Rhodes scholars and too many generalizations are made concerning them. It is an argument that quickly comes down to a question of individuals. If William A. Breyfogle, elected this year from New Hampshire, is an enormous and conceited jackanapes, he will surely be unpopular and a discredit to the U. S. while at Oxford, and a useless citizen, talking through his nose, when he comes back. But if, on the other hand, he is intelligent and sensitive, he will find, clinging to Oxford like the thick leaves along its walls, a glory that...
...McBride represents the Wheeler tradition of alert, energetic lobbying, vote-swaying, political-threatening. Mr. Cherrington represents a faction of the League which conceives that Wheelerism has been misunderstood in the U. S.; that the League's moneyed lobbying has made the League almost unpopular; that the League's wisest course now is to spend its millions after the fashion of manufacturers of tomato soup and cigarets, on national advertising and an "educational" campaign...
...Public sentiment inclines not to favour capital punishment but I have done things highly unpopular with the public before, and I think that is one reason for my appointment as District Attorney," Reading continued...
...every five who has bought a Corona Portable typewriter (L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.) has bought a colored Corona Portable.*He purchases either a scarlet, a maroon, a green, a blue, a cream & gold, or a lavender & gold. Red is men's choice. Ivory and lavender are unpopular. Scarlet is popular. English & U. S. society women now have typewriters that do not suggest "business." Of the colored typewriters sold to date: 22 % are Scarlet 17 % are Maroon 18 % are Blue 13 % are Lavender 18 % are Green 12 % are Ivory...
...From Peru to see President Coolidge came Miles Poindexter, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Washington, now U. S. Ambassador to Peru but soon to retire. Ambassador Poindexter said that European influences, especially Russian, are at work in South America to make the U. S. unpopular there, to oust the U. S. from South American markets. Washington pondered who Ambassador Poindexter's successor might be. Banker John W. Garrett of Baltimore seemed likely...