Word: vexing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office of the President's secretary was a madhouse of messages-irate farmers said: "Please sign the bill"; irate bankers said: "Please veto it." The President can take his choice. 1) To sign it would seem to repudiate every statement he has made on farm relief, would vex his own section of the country and party, would destroy his alleged reputation as a strong silent man. The farm bloc says that President Coolidge can quell revolt in his party and gain enough popularity in the West to be re-elected in 1928, if he signs...
Historians will not vex themselves with the details of his life. It is recorded that he was born and had some schooling in upstate New York. The Oneida Central Bank employed him at $100 a year. As clerk in a lumber yard in Chicago, they made him load and unload wagons and dropped him when bad times came. He got into a bank and after 42 years quit Chicago, its leading banker...
Federal Trade Commission. Of all Government organizations which attempt to regulate business, the Federal Trade Commission seems to vex the most businessmen. So, last week, many were pleased when the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission was without authority "to require one who has secured actual title and possession of physical property before proceedings were begun against it to dispose of the same, although secured through an unlawful purchase of stock...
...oldtime wooden covered bridge is a U. S. institution. New England in particular abounds with specimens. Narrow, dark, rickety, they stand indefinitely; they vex the speedy motorist, he is obliged to slow up and turn on his lights. The mechanistic 20th century has been unable to figure out exactly why these bridges have covers. Girls from Northampton have asked youths from New Haven and Cambridge: "Why?" and been told that it was to prevent horses from becoming frightened and jumping in the river...
Perhaps the placid landscapes in which he, had spent most of his life had begun to vex him a little; perhaps their dreaming beauty was the very irritant that made him take fire at seeing, as if for the first time, the walls and towers, monuments of a fierce physical necessity, that industrial life was evolving here. The City of New York spoke its rocky sermon to him and he, better than any other etcher of this time, understood what it was saying. "When you go out on the ferry to Staten Island," he wrote, "there is one moment...