Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...which the entrants will ride round a ring of chairs to the tune of the band. When the music stops the men will dismount and rush for the nearest chair. As there will be one less seat on each round than there are men, the man who fails to find a seat will be eliminated...
However, the great deciding factor against the belief that Hoover is an autocrat is the practice he has of always choosing broad and capable men to be his aids. When he has chosen the best men he can find for his subordinates he trusts them absolutely and gives them free rein to work. Not only was this evident during his war work, but also in his private business life before. Plainly this is a habit utterly inconsistent with a one-man government. R. J. BARNES...
...ordinary ability, whose pen was fired by the late war. His spirit after the disaster of Caporetto, it is admitted, was admirable and buoyant. But with that, everything in his defence has been said; and, taken by and large, that is not much, for any man who failed to find spiritual inspiration in the late war cannot justify his existence on this earth...
...with which he is charged by the Department of Justice apparently consists of a decision that membership in the Communist Labor Party does not "per se" render an alien liable to instant deportation. This decision is eminently reasonable and just. Secretary Wilson announces that after careful investigation he cannot find any part of the program of this party which advocates violence or the forcible overthrow of government. Many aliens, he further points out, are members of the party without knowing it. It seems hardly in accordance with any principle of free government to punish such ignorance with deportation...
...Hampden plays the part of Shylock with more than usual passion; he leads the audience to feel the hatred, the fawning servility, and the cruel pride of the Jew. In the scene in which Shylock returns to find his daughter fied, and his money taken, Mr. Hampden overdoes the wild despair of the Usurer, who alternately cries out for his daughter and his ducats. He loses the calculating strength of the Jew's character in the wild passion of his despair. If Mr. Hampden over-emphasizes the emotion of this scene, he brings the tragedy of the situation before...