Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illustrations by J. O. Whedon are also contributions. The first, a caricature of winged Mercury perched on a fire-plug with beckoning finger, is entitled "Hey! Taxi!" and the other, drawn in collaboration with Cannon, represents a "Design for a Hall Closet by Cecil B. de Mille". The palatial proportions of the chamber featured are a perfect burlesque upon the grandeur so dear to the heart of the cinema producer. It is to be hoped that the President-elect of the Lampoon will continue the contribution generiously to the pages of the publication for which he will be responsible...
...White House and took away Roosevelt's elder daughter, is now Speaker of the House. And the great figures of the Senate?most of them have gone to their graves: Hanna, Penrose, Aidrich, Hale, Platt. How deeply the bitterness of some of Roosevelt's fights with them is buried. Cannon, retired far from the scene of legislative battles, remembers much, and Roosevelt's Cabinet? how diverse have been their fates. One sits as Chief Justice; another, Elihu Root, is dean of U. S. statecraft; another, Truman Handy Newberry, has had most discomforting experiences with the Senate to which he aspired...
...marketing; nor railroad consolidation, nor the Muscle Shoals, nor reclamation, nor the World Court was honored with effective attention. Over farm marketing and the Music Shoals, Congress deigned to bicker for a while. But when it might have entertained the other propositions. It was busied with doling out souvenir cannon and war monuments to the towns back home...
...play is not particularly good. Handicapped by its star, it makes mediocre entertainment. Mr. Blackmer makes the dent a pillow might if fired from a cannon instead of solid shot. The presence of Martha Bryan Allen, loveliest of our younger actresses, is a vast pictorial advantage...
...Ward, Mrs. Francis Parkman, Mrs. E. C. Moore, Mrs. G. W. Cram, Mrs. Henry Tudor, Mrs. D. K. David, Mrs Ada Comstock, Mrs. N. P. Hallowell, Mrs. Andrew Adie, Mrs. Francis McGlone, Mrs. Calvent Magruder Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. W. B. Donham, Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mrs. W. B. Cannon, Mrs. E. N. Bradford, Mrs. C. W. Hackett, Mrs. Robert Hallowell, Mrs. F. S. Mead, Mrs. G. H. Edgell, Mrs. James Jackson, Mrs. James Lawrence, Mrs. A. N. Holcombe Mrs. D. M. Little, Mrs. B. C. Hopper, Mrs. E. A. Whitney, Mrs. Dwight M. Sayles, Mrs E. R. Nash, Mrs. Harry...