Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the other collections of an infancy spent in a very politically-minded family, the Vagabond recalls distinctly one occasion some presidential campaigns ago when his father, growing irate against a stubborn uncle, overwhelmed the claims of the latter for his candidate with the words "But he doesn't respect the Constitution!" Between his wanderings from lecture hall to lecture hall the Vagabond has picked up enough knowledge about the current campaign to assure him that there is still no more destructive charge Same of the factors that influenced the birth of this criterion of Americanism will be discussed...
Your correspondent, L. F. Southwick of Connecticut, admits he is prejudiced against Governor Smith because the stubborn stamp of his upbringing on "the sidewalks of New York" makes him say "poisonal," "detoimined." And in his Omaha speech I heard plainly on the radio, "foist," "raddio." A man's a man for a' that...
...Rhodes scholarship. At 27, as president of Kentucky Wesleyan College, he selected chairs for greybeards. In Florida, he will manipulate a university, adequately supported by the state, including schools as diversified as journalism and pharmacy. He is young enough to mingle with undergraduates, old enough to be a stubborn organizer...
...University baseball team wound up its preliminary season by downing a stubborn Tufts nine 5 to 4 at Medford on Saturday...
This war to end flies will not be won without overcoming stubborn resistance Travellers in Italy this summer may expect to witness at any time battles between great swarms of embattled flies and heroic groups of warriors, protected by a barricade of fly-paper and yielding swatters with deadly effect. But the chief danger is to the Premier himself. So far he has managed to protect himself from would-be assassins, but no defense can save the man for whose blood a whole face of flying avengers will soon be thirsting...