Word: alled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the House he evaded Conservative queries: "So much has been done that I want to tell the Honorable Gentlemen all about it as soon as possible."
¶ Defending the $40,000,000 Widow's Pensions Bill, famed Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of the late, great, crusty Conservative Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, made her maiden speech. A rabid Socialist M. P., she cried: "I have been getting something for nothing all my life! . . . Why shouldn't poor...
"It's all right, Your Worship," said he. "Mrs. Cratchitt and I, we've forgotten our little differences. I've arranged to pay all her debts. As a matter of fact, I've done pretty well. For 30 years I've had a cat'...
Homes. Not counting the big white official house of Mr. & Mrs. Hoover, where she had slept, she wrote: "I have not had one glimpse of the inside of an American home. . . . All I have been able to see in New York, Washington. Philadelphia, Buffalo and Niagara Falls is the outside...
Thousands of logical Nova Scotians answered only one question, evidently felt that in so doing they had answered the other by implication. Despite all confusion, results showed a clear Wet majority on both questions. In beaming anticipation of liquor-tax funds for his treasury. Premier Rhodes exulted: