Word: adlis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Christmas presents are hung on a shoetree. Carols are proposed, " 'But don't bring Earl,'" says the laundress. A Princeton co-ed sisbooms "ad Nassaum." Yale sings "Beulah, Beulah." Funnyman Donald Ogden Stewart's technique is borrowed for an interview with Golfer Bobby Jones, aged one, in a lavatory. Pleased with himself, Mr. Lardner then interviews Horace Greeley in a bathtub. Toward the end of the book a Laplander lands in his lap. They marry and live in Gluten, N. Y. Divorce ensues. Queen Marie sings "Dat watahmelyon hangin' on de vine." He marries...
...winging o'er a clover field. The boys are stalwart and sturdy, dressed in their 50-pound suits of armor. If they don't always look happy, think how you'd feel black-bottoming in full matching equipment and looking for all the world like a King Arthur Flour ad...
According to an announcement made yesterday the first and University 150 pound crews will spend part of the spring vacation period in training at the Kent School in Kent, Conn. Kent Shell ad material will be used by the University oarsmen, who on April 20 will oppose the schoolboys in an informal race...
...pocket veto" (failure to act on a bill ten days after receiving it, Congress having ad-journed), the President killed a bill to increase the pensions of Civil War widows, over 75 years of age, from $30 to $40 a month...
There is something essentially unethical in all this. It seems a truism to say that the raison d'etre of a Senator is to legislate rather than to perpetuate his lease of power and that of his party ad infinitum if possible. Yet the senatorial attitude seems to be the reverse of this. And Haines' reappointment seems to indicate that the president shares the senatorial viewpoint...