Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bombast. "Poor little purse-proud puppets," he sneered, "holding out their hands to get something scurrilous to write about a man who is trying to serve his country." The six gazers quickly reported the matter to their fellows, who, by tradition, leave the gallery when the Senator from Alabama rises...
Yale States: New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, California, Oregon, Iowa, Washington, North Dakota, Minnesota, District of Columbia. Ties: with Princeton in Illinois; with Harvard in Utah...
...with Mexico unless it is stirred up by intemperate speeches and intemperate articles in newspapers. . . . Intolerance, sir, is the child of ignorance. Give me the radius of any man's intelligence, and I will describe the circumference of his tolerance. It is useless for the Senator from Alabama to shout, 'I do not bring in religion.' He has brought in the question of religion; he has thrice brought...
...speech of the Senator from Alabama has been taken seriously by a few. It will be remembered that some 15 years ago Halley's comet scorched through the sky. It had a tail a million miles long. It gave off an iridescence; and some persons grew frightened until scientists assured them that while the tail was indeed a million miles long, the whole affair did not have about it or in it an ounce of substance. [Laughter.] Likewise, the speech of the Senator from Alabama gives off an iridescence, but is bereft of even an ounce of substance...
...most precious books had been gnawed by his favorite dog Beppo. Instead of chastising the dog he simply took up the fragments of the book and wrote on one of the remaining leaves: 'Beppo aid this when he was drunk.' As to the speech of the Senator from Alabama, I can say: 'He made his speech when he was excited.' " [Laughter and applause in the galleries...