Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Census Committee sent word they had the influenza-Washington's Johnson, Pennsylvania's Swick, New York's Jacobstein, Michigan's Clancy and White of Kansas. Wisconsin's Peavey and others were out of town. Without a quorum the committee could not act. For the umpteenth time Reapportionment was postponed...
...every offense, for every act of violence, a legitimate reparation should be forthcoming when the dignity and the sovereignty of a nation have been outraged. It does not seem possible that any country of the world would have stood for the humiliation and the affront and torn down its flag to have it replaced by the banner of arbitration...
...technique: enter speakeasy, consume drinks, ask pointed questions, drop dark hints, increase hints to threats if necessary, pretend to "telephone headquarters" and show a fake revolver (cigaret case) if absolutely necessary. If threatened in return or asked to show a badge, leave discreetly. The underworld name for this whole act is "shake-down...
...seems ridiculous to enumerate them. With the fewest possible exceptions, they all drank as much as or more than they did before prohibition. All say that prohibition is a sad, degrading farce. The only hope they have for unfastening the .millstone around their necks is that the Volstead act will gradually fall into desuetude and that the nation will, by common agreement, observe it in the breach as we do some of our old Stuart blue laws...
...clock Christmas night the University Instrumental Clubs will entrain from the South Station on their annual Christmas trip. The group will be composed of 51 men, including managers, a doctor, and a graduate member who will act in a advisory capacity. The schedule, aside from the regular concerts includes many divertisements designed to fill up, the odd hours intervening between the train and the concert hall...