Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to dabble in Connecticut Republican politics. He went to national conventions, discussed high theories of government, served as a presidential elector. In 1922 he was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut. In November 1924, he was elected Governor. A Connecticut vacancy in the Senate followed the suicide of Senator Frank Bosworth Brandegee. In December 1924, he was elected Senator. In January 1925, he was ceremoniously inaugurated Governor, resigned the next day to take his seat in the U. S. Senate...
...Dishonesty even more piddling?has bought a ticket which he fancied good because it was marked Row F, then discovered there were numerous unlettered rows in front of row A. So prevalent is this species of informatory weaseling that many philosophic souls wonder whether any commercialist can be utterly frank about the nature of the things he wishes to sell. Recently there has been plenty of food for such speculations...
...Died. Frank Gardner, 76. onetime Confederate drummer boy, mining promoter, good friend of the late Tsar Nicholas II and the late Edward VII of England; in Paris; of apoplexy. Consulting engineers for his great Boulder Perseverance Gold Mining Co. (Australia) were Bewick, Moreing & Co., of which Herbert Clark Hoover was a member at the time...
...last in the face of recurrences. The usages of paternalism have never been in much favor at Harvard, but if ever paternalistic measures are justified it is in dealing with those not as yet dry behind the ears. To sum the whole matter up in one brutally frank sentence, if younger persons have not as yet learned to dry themselves behind the ears, it is high time that some responsible person performed this office for them...
There is a naivete about "Babes in Toyland" which is sufficiently conscious O lend an atmosphere of sophistication smacking of the "Black Crook" era no doubt, but tremendously refreshing in a time when smartness lies chiefly in nudity and "frank" jokes. Moreover, the lyrics have much of the W. S. Gilbert playfulness that are original enough to make them thoroughly effective. It is particularly interesting to find the source of many of the clever modern witticisms in a production of the past...