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...legal and enthusiastic peasantry. Unfortunately; however, human nature is of so frail a cast that when a poet has exercised his skill on behalf of some deserving object. Impostures are promptly brought into being by envious souls yearning for similar redirected glory, who also erect tablets, construct fences, and annoy automobilists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPREADING CHESTNUT | 5/21/1924 | See Source »

...special election the Legislature secured the right to meet. Then Mr. Walton, seeing resistance vain, went the Legislators one better ?he ordered them to meet, but specified that it was to devote its power to-annoy exclusively to the Ku Klux Klan. At any rate, the Legislature was called for Oct. 11, with the Governor preparing to fight for his place in the halls of the law givers and the courts of the law definers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Notes: Oct. 15, 1923 | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

...business man, the war lord and the scientist must pass into early obscurity. A hundred years from now Stinnes, Basil Zaharoff, James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan and Judge Gary will be familiar to antiquarians only, while the fame of Keats and Shelley, Dostoevsky and Goethe will persist to annoy and fascinate hundreds of generations of school children. Even such a recent cataclysm as the World War did not seriously disturb the order of rank in the international hall of fame. For all of their "saving of the world" and their "redemption of democracy." Foch, Clemenceau, Wilson and the organizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thirteen Tarkingtons* | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

...order that the noise of telegraph instruments which otherwise would annoy the speaker and audience may be avoided a silencer will be used at the Union. The sending key makes very little noise but the "sounder" a good deal. The latter is primarily for the receiving operators who listen to it and the sounders in New York will not disturb anyone in the Union. However, the sending operator must have a sounder in order to know what he is sending and whether all points are getting it. Accordingly, the usual sounder, which is an instrument about 5x3 inches in size...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOVERNOR COX, WINDING UP CAMPAIGN, TO SPEAK IN UNION--PROBABLY AT EIGHT | 10/19/1920 | See Source »

...public conveyances, such as railway trains and street cars, and in public places, such as theatres, honors and personal salutes may be omitted when palpably inappropriate or apt to disturb or annoy civilians present. (C.A.R...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reserve Officers' Training Corps | 6/7/1917 | See Source »

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