Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening the polls five minutes beforehand. The 400 voters were assembled in a line and when they had voted . . . polls were closed." Hot-collared Novelist Sinclair Lewis, charging General Butler with "conspiracy to murder the men unjustly declared bandits," wrote a loud letter to Senator Borah of the Foreign Relations Committee, demanding an inquiry. General Butler blandly replied to Novelist Lewis that he had told the committee all that "and a great deal more...
...Ability to meet world-wide competition of consolidated foreign units like Britain's Cables & Wireless...
Twice a year a terrific crash in the darkened ballroom of the New Willard Hotel in Washington startles the President of the U. S.. his Cabinet, Class A senators and congressmen, prime foreign envoys, many a tycoon of business and politics. Suddenly a jester rushes in upon them with the first jape to start one of the Washington newsmen's famed gridiron club dinners...
...Marine Corps does not sing Christmas carols. When it is Christmas in the Marine Corps, "the toughest soldiers in the world" on foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or?as in Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown...
...most desirable in the House is that a proper balance of power be maintained between the two different factions. Nothing is more deadening than constant agreement, and opposition only ensures a thorough consideration of all proposals. Even the most rugged American individual could hardly desire a complete isolation from foreign culture, but he is in the habit of desiring adequate representation for his ideas. The recent developments in the administration of Lowell House seem to indicate that such representation is, in the case at least, assured...