Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, a continuing body, is ready to begin work almost immediately. The House must first organize (elect a Speaker, House functionaries, etc.). No limit can be placed upon legislation in the Senate, as its committees continue to function, without reconfirmation, from one Congress to the next. But House leaders purpose to restrict legislative action by limiting the number of House committees to be appointed and confirmed to four: Ways & Means (for tariff), Agriculture (for farm relief), Rules (for parliamentary procedure), Accounts (for operating expenses). The House's 42 other committees would be non-existent until the regular December issue...
...Smoot feet, large and heavy, once almost created a diplomatic Incident when the French Debt Funding Commission returned to Paris to complain that Senator Smoot, a U. S. Commissioner, had comfortably rested his well-filled shoes upon their conference table. The catch word of that conference was France's "capacity to pay." At its conclusion a French Commissioner called upon Senator Smoot to bid him farewell, to ask if it were really true that Mormons practiced polygamy and if so, how they did it. The Senator replied: "That all depends upon?'the capacity...
Shady Lady (Pathe). Pretty Phyllis Haver, wanted in Manhattan for murder, lives comfortably but not idly in a hotel in Havana, Cuba, where she falls in love with a rumrunner. Good atmosphere and acting almost succeed in turning into realism the neat melodramatics that make possible a happy ending. The picture is silent except for a final talking sequence and a theme song that goes "Shady Lady, Shady Lady! Girl of my dreams." Best shots?hotel life in Havana...
Thus without counting "extras and in- cidentals," the King-Emperor's pneumonia will likely cost his people over £50,000 or almost a quarter of a million dollars...
...Guarantor Wu. "For my worthless neck the cord!" Presently there were Chinese "Extras!" on the street with news that Wu had committed honorable suicide; and then before long there were "Extra Extras!" screeching that General Li had never been executed at all; but everything came out all right, because almost at once "Extra Extra Extras!" were out with the news that Li had been cut down before he was quite hanged.* In other words, the revolutionary situation in Nanking, last week, was so chaotic that scarcely anyone knew where they were at. One evening it was creditably reported that...