Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a great folding of silk pajamas and brushing of well cut suits in Paris last week. John Pierpont Morgan, mightiest of U. S. bankers, was leaving town. The nations which fought the World War had agreed at last how the staggering costs and damages were to be paid by the loser Germany. Mr. Morgan's financial prestige and wisdom were no longer required. He gave power-of-attorney to his partner and alternate, Thomas W. Lamont, and boarded the Mauretania for home...
...mellow pathos of commencement tide, the sentimental verbiage of commencement speeches were missing last week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At a graduating class banquet stocky, well-groomed Prof. Robert Emmons Rogers arose and shattered whatever mood of revery or reminiscence was present...
...their ugliness which would trouble the sensitive visitor. . . . [They] are out of place as the symbols of a bygone hatred. . . . They are of the stuff that is offensive to humanity and dangerous to peace . . . should be removed from the stronghold of academic freedom. They may well find a resting place, if resting place it is necessary that they have, in the memorial chapel about to be. The new chapel, it is averred, will not honor in its halls the Harvard War dead who were so unfortunate as to perish on the Teuton side. The Sargent murals are in keeping with...
...kill themselves to end their pain. Should not the state "through pity put an end to the sufferings of those incurables who ask it of us?" he asked himself. Of course, human life is inviolable. Yet the state executes criminals. And of course religion forbids good-intentioned murder as well as offensive murder and suicide. But religion is a personal matter. Step by step he puzzled out the logic of his ethical problem: "Has the state, for reasons which are at bottom religious, the right to refuse to incurables the pity which they demand? Has not the individual the right...
...President Andrews is also a Budd, as well as a Hupp director. At the age of 19 he was a dealer on the curb market, retired from the brokerage business (1919) at 40, bought, and later sold, a chain of California hotels. His Connecticut estate, Freestone Castle, is patterned upon English models; he has also a Colonial home in Altadena, Cal. He is the owner of the Sialia, a yacht formerly in the possession of Henry Ford. The Sialia is the fourth largest privately owned yacht in the world...