Word: explicitness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about the height of skyscrapers; reminded you that the omission of the Amicable Building at Waco, Tex., was a grave one. Mr. Landers might have related an amusing quip well known in the Southwest. It is told that a gentleman from Shreveport or Tulsa (the old chronicles are not explicit) was made acquainted with a Waconian. "So you're from Waco, are you?" he drawled. "Yes suh, thass right," agreed the Waconian. "And may I ask, suh. what floor do you live on?" wisecracked the Tulsan. In expiation to outraged Waconians, I concede that Waco is a thriving...
What the "peculiar conditions" were he did not say. But they obviously included the English situation, easier credit needed for moving the fall crop. Stock Market excesses, high call money rates. For Governor Young to have been explicit would have been untraditional. Because it is impossible to make a complete statement taking into consideration every factor discussed, the Federal Reserve Board makes no explanations, merely presents the simple fact of its decisions...
...Frau Stresemann. There in a body she could study the genus U. S. woman, of which Berlin women have read in the works of Sinclair Lewis, who lately sojourned in Germany with éclat. As advertising goes, the Foreign Minister's wife could have asked for nothing more explicit than this gathering of U. S. women from New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. Dallas, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland. It was equally edifying for the U. S. ladies to meet the wife of a Foreign Minister, no hausfrau, but a young, elegant, cosmopolite, English speaking Jewess, a woman equipped...
Sweltering Showdown. Though the potent attack of M. Franklin-Bouillion and his Bloc had thus been safely weathered, long hours of sultry word-fencing by M. Briand with at least a dozen orators ensued before the question reached a vote. Fearful that the Deputies would never commit themselves to explicit ratification, the government did not put the issue squarely, as the final showdown came. Instead the Chamber was asked to pass a weasel-Jaw authorizing popular President Gaston ("Gastounet"') Domergue to perform the act of ratification by executive decree. Prior to seeking action on even this weasel...
...this from his pulpit? Will any bishop put his name to a document commending the practice even to the dwellers of the city slums? Why not? Or will any ordained person avow in public he is himself a contraceptionist? If not, why not? The Roman Catholic church is very explicit in its attitude, and we ought to make our position equally clear...