Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earlier Justice Black had appointed Miss Annie Butt, a Catholic, as a secretary, and the Supreme Court had designated Leon Smallwood, a Negro and a Catholic as his messenger. Cooper is twenty-four years old, was born in Alamba, and graduated from the Harvard Law School...
...political future of the U. S. This letter stirred in Republican James Abram Garfield so much resentment that 21 years later he flayed it from the stump during a Congressional campaign.* Last week Franklin Roosevelt, like Garfield before him, chose Macaulay's letter as a good butt for political rebuttal...
About the time Tammany decided that Hylan was becoming the butt of too many municipal jokes and replaced him with the sophisticated Jimmy Walker, Grover Whalen retired. His friend Rodman Wanamaker, who knew that besides looking the apotheosis of a floorwalker Grover Whalen had real executive ability, made him general manager of Wanamaker's Manhattan store. After only three years he was called back to the city's service. While Mayor Walker was dining out and making the wisecracks which endeared him to every Irish heart, things had gone on which put his administration in bad odor...
...girls, closed in behind the procession, sang hymns and prayed, as it moved through the streets to the Church of St. Sava. Reaching the centre of Belgrade, they faced double ranks of gendarmes, who charged on the congregation. Women fled in terror. The police cracked down with rifle butt and truncheon on the chanting priests. Hoary old Bishop Simeon of Shabatz lifted a heavy silver cross to protect himself and down came a rifle butt, smashing the cross against his head. Blood pouring from his face, he was carried off suffering a brain concussion. Sacred emblems were snatched from priests...
...money-loser with a piddling circulation of 60,000. It was a happy solution for both, and the only long faces were those of Joseph Medill Patterson, who did not like the idea of his sister working for his archrival, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. who was promptly made the butt of "Cissy" Patterson's front-page chatter...