Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Convicts here are divided into four classes in accordance with their behavior. Privileges consist of extra food and extra smokes. The highest class is allowed complete freedom of movement without any supervision...
...installed. With electric fans out of commission. Senators puffed, perspired, languished in linens. Leader Watson, clad in a light grey suit, wearing white silk socks and blancoed shoes, mopped his head with a handkerchief and wearily remarked: "I always try to be good natured." The Senate's behavior on Farm Relief (see p. 13) reflected small, if any, credit upon the Watson leadership. Twice had he failed to stem the Debenture Plan tide in the Senate, finally leaving it to President Hoover to interpose his own political authority to straighten out the legislative mess. President Hoover had wanted...
...president, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, declared that Fundamentalists and Modernists had best lay their differences entirely aside and join in repelling "the humanist movement, which makes God simply a name for the ethical idea evolved by mankind and attempts to draw its moral standards from a study of human behavior. . . . Both sides must recognize a serious menace to vital Christian faith in the humanist movement. The urgent task for Christian scholars is to state the conception of God in Christ convincingly and to help build a Christian Church which will embody his spirit...
Among the guests invited were Speaker Longworth and his popular, influential wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, onetime "Princess Alice" of the White House. Great is Mrs. Longworth's political prestige, great her social power, independent her behavior. She sent Mrs. Meyer her regrets, making it clear that she declined to sit below Mrs. Gann. Not to be outdone, Mrs. Gann and the Vice President, likewise stayed at home that evening...
...million dollars worth of enemy shipping, mostly British, without the loss of a single life. True, the Emden sailed the Pacific under a British flag, disguised, with the aid of a disappearing canvas funnel, as the British cruiser Yarmouth. But within 1,000 yds. of her prey the behavior of the Emden was always scrupulously correct. Down came the flag and the dummy funnel; out broke the German ensign...