Word: aldermanic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Alderman Robert R. Jackson, framer of the ordinance, said: "The dairy farmers say they will lose money if their cows suffering from tuberculosis are killed. What about the loss of the health of Chicago's 3,000,000 people ? If we must choose between human lives and money, then this committee should fight for lives, and for the protection of our milk supply...
Last week one S. K. Winn of Manhattan wrote letters to Dr. E. A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia, to Dr. Henry Louis Smith, President of Washington and Lee, to John W. Davis and other noted southern gentlemen. He stated in no uncertain terms that, though he did not pretend to be an art critic, he had seen pictures of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, and that Sculptor Lukeman's figures did not look anything like them. Dr. Alderman replied: "I think the Jackson figure thoroughly unsatisfactory. It does not suggest Stonewall Jackson...
...City Council was about to approve the measure, one Councilor Jack Salmon, "a breezy fish salesman," arose and denounced Character Barkis as "a silly old pup . . . a drunken rascal with a red nose." Forthwith one Alderman Goode vouched for Barkis' honesty and did not admit his habitual drunkenness; and the deliberations of the Council became audible in the next room...
...Alderman Ferrier eventually opined, "Steerforth brought disgrace upon little Em'ly, a Yarmouth girl. Although he himself came to a tragic end, it is not advisable to perpetuate his name unduly." The Council agreed; banished "Steerforth Avenue" from its deliberations...
Said The Club Fellow*: "Ruth Pratt is a wonder! Other mothers of growing sons and daughters marvel at her energy. Fancy a woman running for Alderman of the 15th District and between runs preparing for the début of a daughter! Yet the dance at which Sally Pratt will make her bow to society on December the Thirteenth will be as spiffy as the party given for any other girl launched during the holidays...