Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Approachable, candid, he was a hero to many a cub reporter. He said: "I am a quasi-public servant. I have no more right to refuse an interview to a newspaperman than to a director of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad." To neither newspapermen nor directors did he refuse interviews on the day he took over the N. Y., N. H. & H. in an effort to reduce accidents, deficits. On that day the ringing of a telephone had interrupted his breakfast. And a terror-stricken voice had reported the wrecking of the Bar Harbor Express, the loss...
...first report to summarize many interesting important phases of undergraduate life. Some of these cover such topics as expenses in college, marriage of undergraduates, drinking, and opinions on courses in general. A feature of the questionnaire is the fact that it gives the individual ample opportunity to express his candid views on the more vital functions of the college, such as the system of divisional examinations at present followed, the tutorial system, the Reading Period, and the club system...
...behind him to the left, swart Curtis of Kansas. It was an act of courtesy if not of calculation to call on Senator Curtis before the rest. He if any one, is Senator Borah's "leader" in the Senate. If not the most potent, he is perhaps the most candid candidate...
...Author, Dancer Duncan, was born in 1880. Her life shows equally the influence of iced oysters, champagne, and her uneasy but auspicious star. Having composed this detailed and candid history, she planned to follow it with a volume about a trip to Russia?for which "I would hail a New World," was a sort of preface. This second volume she did not accomplish. When she had finished My Life, in the spring of 1927, she prepared to spend the remainder of the summer at her Riviera villa. This lady who had danced a thousand times with a veil waving...
...Story. "The twelve-year-old Margarete, Princess of Carinthia and Tyrol . . . looked older than her twelve years. Her thick-set body with its short limbs supported a massive misshapen head. The forehead indeed, was clear and candid, the eyes quick and shrewd, penetrating and sagacious; but below the small flat nose an apelike mouth thrust forward its enormous jaws and pendulous underlip. Her copper-colored hair was coarse, wiry and dull, her skin patchy and of a dull greyish pallor...