Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into office came Edward M. Heath, machine man, as first assistant attorney general. His first act was to appear before a three-judge court, beg that a certain hearing be postponed for two days until he could familiarize himself with the details of the case...
...play's leading man was acting up. Moreover, he was not just any leading man, but the great John Barrymore-sometimes ill, sometimes tight, but always a trouper. Many a night he has rolled to the theatre, not sure of his legs, not sure of his lines, but certain that he could put on a good show of some sort. "Yep," says the doorman, "he arrives every night, dead or alive...
...twitted censorship with references to the Office of Twerps, the Ministry of Irritation, was a scream lampooning Hitler, whose mustache he once compared to a splash from a passing taxi. Most telling BBC Hitler-baiter : Band Waggon's little Arthur Askey, cooking up ingenious schemes for pestering a certain Mr. Nasty. Sample: Plotting to train 5,000 parrots to fly over old Nasty's House at Birdsgarden, singing "We'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal...
Taft himself shared the inability of the country at large to shake off the spell of the Rough Rider; but Pringle's evidence makes it clear that in certain essential particulars Roosevelt left his friend to face the music. T. R.'s liberalism had somehow avoided the high tariff; Taft had to cope with that. T. R. had swung the big stick against the trusts; Taft had to make it connect. T. R. had been supple enough to play politics with a conservative Congress without seeming to do so; Taft had to temper Uncle Joe Cannon...
Flexibility is and must be the keynote of the demands of Administration opponents. They are not slaves to figures as is the Administration for they realize that figures obliterate all human and educational values. They are not demanding a certain fixed number of additional "frozen" associates. Rather they are asking that the sole criteria for permanence on Harvard's teaching staff be teaching needs and the capabilities of the men involved. Such a request may sound wildly impossible in view of fixed and unalterable budgetary limitations. But the answer--the panacea--is flexibility in the system of appointment...