Word: bearer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home my mammy in (insert name of)" should be changed to have home time with capitol dome, and mammy can be the White House cook. This will at once place jazz on the proper national footing. A now Cabinet position must be created immediately, with Irving Berlin as the bearer of its portfolio-saxophone...
Lord Wargrave, referring to the Premier, described him as the "stan- dard-bearer of the white flag during the War and the red flag after...
...present or former member of the University may buy a reasonable number of the season tickets which admit the bearer to reserved sections at all home football games except those with Yale and Princeton...
...swelled near to 1,500, entered cavernous Westminster Hall, ancient home of Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence. Big Ben itolled; an impressive silence fell; the assemblage rose; the English Judges, richly dight, proceeded majestically behind the Golden Mace of the House of Lords and the Lord High Chancellor's purse-bearer. Motioned to their seats by the purse-bearer's Master, Lord Haldane, the U. S. barristers were formally welcomed, instructed in the legend and tradition of their surroundings. Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down...
...delegates to discuss a further limitation of armaments! It would not be surprising to hear of some representative calling for an appropriation to finance a conference of scofflaws who might find a way of persuading a prominent delegate from Florida to the Democratic National Convention to become their standard bearer in bringing about a repeal of the 18th Amendment. The sanest thing Congress can do before adjournment is to invite a body of allenists to determine how many of its number should transfer so other lastitutions...