Word: drawbacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profound belief in the principles of the Democratic party. Last month, he surprised Chicago and surprised himself by going to Houston as a delegate-at-large from Illinois. Hidden among the Irish cohorts of Boss Brennan, Teetotaler Traylor studied the party, Al Smith, Tammany. Last week, he explained: "The drawback to politics in this country is that business men do not take enough interest in it. ... Professional politicians are necessary. . . . The Democratic party is now in the hands of a conservative element...
Rumbling is a major sport, if there ever was one. We would, for example, and probably should, before the evening was over, give a considerable sum to go out and rumble for a little while now. It has manifold attributes among which is overemphasis, and its only drawback, so far as we can see, is the possibility of a long cool walk to Cambridge. But tonight, instead of rumbling along, starting quiet towns, we are staying in and rumbling typewriter keys. And, as some one has said, it isn't the heat, it's the humility...
...Premier James Ramsay MacDonald, was still so weak (on his arrival from the U. S. last week) that he could not address the House, but merely hobbled in using a cane. Other Laborites, marshaled by Deputy Chairman of the Labor Party John Robert Clynes, spoke, but under the heavy drawback that they feared to seem to take the part of "Bolsheviks," "Reds...
...Cutts '28 or Willard Howard '28 is the probable pitching choice for the University. After his success as relief twirler against Yale last June, Cutts has had a fair year thus far, lack of consistency being the drawback to his further effectiveness. Howard, former Harvard shortstop, has changed to the pitching mound only this spring, and thus far has hurled the University to victory over the Williams batters, whom he held to two hits, and pitched in the 3 to 3 tie played a week ago with the Alumni nine. HARVARD BROWN Burns c.f. l.f. Scribner Chase l.f. c.f. Edes...
...distance, about a ten minutes walk, at which the Business School lies from Harvard Square and the College Yard, is the only drawback imposed upon rooming in these dormitories...