Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elevator operators in the Senate office building have adapted themselves to the pastime. On reaching the third floor they call "Oil," and a portion of the public disembarks. At the fourth floor they call "Daugherty," and the rest leave the car. Not only the public, but members from both branches of Congress have taken up the fad. One morning last week, when it was time for the Senate to open, Senator Curtis, Republican Whip, was the only member on the floor. Call bells were rung, and after some 15 minutes a quorum was gathered, but not until many Senators...
...Station was covered with flags. There was a reception committee of city officials. Aeroplanes circled overhead. A naval reserve unit was at hand to fire a salute. A train swept in, and Edwin Denby descended to meet Detroit's welcome. Factories and steamboats whistled. He marched to his car, and the Police Department band burst into melody...
Harold Knutson, Congressman from Minnesota, Republican whip in the last Congress: "I took an automobile ride with one Leroy M. Hull, an employee of the Department of Labor. Because I parked my car in the outskirts of Washington in a place where parking is forbidden by law, I was arrested by the Virginia Highway Police, was refused permission to telephone my aged mother and some of my colleagues, was obliged to spend 15 hours in a crowded cell, was compelled to furnish a bond of $5,000. Said I, on being released: 'I am the innocent victim of a terrible...
Furthermore, while railroad operating costs are now 100% and over, more than they were at the outbreak of the War, railroad income has during the same period increased only 50%. The railroads have survived this handicap only by increased efficiency in putting more freight in each car and more cars on each train...
...literary heroine of the future will no longer have to depend in order to captivate her thousands, upon the questionable charms of a delicately tinted cheek, or the alluring curve of a car mine lip, if one can take stock in the theories of Professor Charles Lalo, of the Sorbonne, who has just published monumental treatise on "The Bankruptcy of Beauty." Professor Lalo asserts that "mere youth" presumably with its attendant attractions "must not hope to compete in the lists of gallantry with the riper charms of experience, conscious coquetry, and the maturer ability of self-abnegation...