Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover via Ambassador Dawes the Prime Minister raised an international furore by implying that all but three of 20 points of difference between Britain and the U. S. on this question had been ironed out. What were the three points? Correspondents tried so hard to guess that they well nigh ignored a much more significant passage in which Mr. MacDonald said, "What we [Britain and the U.S.]want to get is an agreement which, having been made, can be a preliminary to the calling of a Five-Power Naval Conference, the other Powers being as free...
...said, 'Be not weary of well doing.' He was in despair: 'We have all emptied our pockets,' he fretted. 'Go through your pockets again,' I said very kindly, 'and I am sure you can find enough to cover what remains between...
...handy route in the shape of a heavily bonded high- way and a costly toll bridge which lands them right at the very door of the place. A committee of Congressmen went to Hidalgo County and studied the technique of Baker, Creager & Co., when they were ready to remark: 'Well, this is all too fancy for us. Philadelphia at its best was never like this...
...Peter Pan's happy light flitted about Columbia's Teachers' College. Professor Goodwin Barbour Watson there trapped it under the lattice bushel of his studies. "In general." said he, "the happy student is likely to be a healthy, popular, married man who thinks that he can tell a joke well, lead a discussion, act in a play, talk on sex, or lead a group. . . . He has had a harmonious home, enjoys his job, prefers adventure to peace, responsibility to direction. Not essential to happiness are intelligence, race, nationality, self-support, religious participation, ability in algebra, cleverness in writing poetry...
...Lichnowsky he wrote: "Prince, what you are, you are by the accident of birth; what I am. I am of myself. There are and there will be thousands of princes. There is only one Beethoven." About laws of harmony he said: "The rules forbid this succession of chords; very well, I allow it." At weepers over his music he laughed: "The fools! . . . They are not artists. Artists are made of fire; they do not weep." He considered God his only equal. He lived precariously, striding along the Nietzschean tightrope. For all his self-sufficiency Beethoven could "never see a pretty...