Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. In this novel, Mr. Hergesheimer does not borrow from a century but presents it. He has achieved a book that has the tex ture of velvet and the rigor of bright iron. His method of dating the narrative with politics and giving history's skeleton,' flesh and wit in the lives of his characters is, though a difficult artifice, perfectly persuasive. To say that we have advanced in our system of government since Revolutionary times is to say that Jefferson was right and Richard Bale was wrong. It is an opinion generally accepted. Mr. Hergeheimer, indeed, holds...
...that malady of corruption which has broken out recently, and breaks out periodically, at Washington. Certainly no college man can quite overlook the possibility of public service; and as obviously no man is better fitted to describe its appeal and its disappointments than one who has himself undergone the rigor of the "cursus honoris...
Prohibitionists love to point the finger of scorn at such depraved states as New Jersey or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island and call for more rigor fom Washington. Anti-prohibitionists lay a finger beside their noses and cry, "Aha! what we need is less rigor." Yet out of it all there is little change from year to year except in an increasing amount of law-breaking. President Harding called his conference of governors and made strong statements, but nothing happened. President Coolidge has given his conference wise suggestions practically all he could do. And judging from past experience nothing probably will...
...come new negotiations with the Allies. What the French attitude will be is hardly a matter of guess-work. Though not to the same extent France as well as Germany has suffered by the occupation. Now that victory has come at last she is hardly likely to soften the rigor of her demands. She will continue her occupation of the Ruhr until she achieves her hopes or until she is forced by circumstances to alter her present attitude. England's attitude is a constant puzzle. Lord Our son recently issued his strong pronunciamento calling in question the legality of France...
...Grand National. Crowds clogged the mist-streaked course, restless with suspense and excitement. Sixteen jumps obstruct the Aintree Course, 14 of which must be twice crossed before the finish. Annual efforts are made by well-intentioned groups of the British public to reduce the number and the rigor of the hazards. At the 82nd Grand National only one horse finished without a fall...