Word: unyieldingness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To attempt to introduce Professor Copeland to members of the three upper classes would be to insult their combined intelligences. All have heard of his celebrated bons mots, and a goodly proportion have probably attended at least one of his "evenings" in Hollis Hall. As well ask a cultivated Londoner...
Never was there a scholar who was less of a pedant, or a statesman who was more impatient with empty forms and artificial contrivances and more anxious to lay hold of living realities. The League of Nations was to him not so much an international covenant as a process of...
But " conservative "-two years ago the word of the hour-is also suffering a political change. " He represents a stern and rock-bound conservatism that is rapidly becoming obsolete, even in the camp of conservatives." The illustrative "he" is Calvin Coolidge. Once he was "our pride" because he would deliver...
Those Americans who want a business man for President can find him in Mr. Hoover, who has brilliantly managed one of the most successful business undertakings known to history. Those who want a progressive in the White House will find in him an instinctively democratic progressive. Those who want administrative...