Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which one can only answer as would the Delphic Divine from over the East River--"My dear young lady, your situation is indeed a difficult one. But there are two sides to every story and you have only shown me one--the outside. Yet I sincerely believe that if you can keep your husband from dipping his bread in his breakfast coffee you will have done all that any wife could do--except to continue, as Glenn Hunter has said, 'his best friend and most severe critic'--for he will need both...
...stellar opposition Thursday night that was encountered in the K. of C. meet, with a few additions. Besides Houben, the German star, and Hussey of Boston College, Clark, a former intercollegiate champion while at Johns Hopkins, and Lecony, former Lafayette and Olympic flyer and also an ex-titlist, will answer the gun in the dash. This is one of the most formidable fields to be assembled since last spring. It should give Miller a chance to show his speed, and it is hoped that Burns will overcome the detriment of his football injury...
...going to engage in a filibuster. I've been 18 years in this body and I have never taken part in a filibuster yet. I've spoken three times on this matter and at no great length. From the beginning I have insisted on legitimate debate. In answer to the Senator from Alabama,-I would suggest Feb. 10 as a date to vote. I want to be sure not to cramp anybody." Senator Heflin, a Court supporter, thereupon interrupted and mentioned that, if necessary, measures for cloture (the stopping of debate so as to vote) might be taken...
...Pullamn and later contains references to oranges, there is hardly an antique and hoary wheeze which does not stage a comeback somewhere between the "Prologue" and the Tiffany (Exacting Standards) advertisement on the final page. Vide such delicatessen as "Do you own much in Flerida?" and its answer: "Oh, lots and lots," or "She: You look much better without those glasses. He: So do you" and even the whiskered one about the coon who burns his finger on the "damned stove" while his wife asks "Why didn't you feel the stove before you put your finger...
...courier from the President to the Senate, was at a loss to remember his subject. "Was I addressing myself o the Pure Food Bill or the Statehood Bill", he asked the presiding officer. "The Senator from Alabama was addressing himself to the Porto Rican Citizenship Bill," came the answer. Thereupon Mr. Morgan continued his speech on the topic of the Nicarauguan Canal...