Word: reformed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George D. Carbary was elected State's Attorney of Kane County, Ill., on a reform platform. He pledged himself to dry up the county in general and the city of Aurora (to Chicago: 40 miles) in particular. Last week his enforcement promise produced: one dead woman, one man with a fractured skull, one deputy sheriff with a bullet in his leg, popular resentment so strong that the State of Illinois had to step in and take over the consequences of his official zeal...
...Said Reform Ticketman Carbary: "The people knew I was going to make raids. I've made 400 and I'm going to make more...
...erroneous impressions as to the Utopian democracy of the House Plan will be swept away. The older graduates seem to be of the opinion that instead of a mature and natural social hierarchy Harvard College possesses a caste system. If some of the most ardent standard bearers of the reform ever have to live in the Houses, they will probably be disappointed to discover that proximity only exaggerates the branch between perfectly natural Harvard undergraduate social groups...
Monday's editorial on the Fogg Museum Library sounded a praiseworthy note for reform in two particulars, opening on Sundays and access in the evenings through the front entrance of the Museum...
...second etching portrays a more personal scene in 1798. At a birthday party in honor of Fox, the Duke of Norfolk proposed such vehement toasts in favor of Parliamentary reform that he was dismissed by the Crown. This, too, Gillray has touched with insight and humor...