Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Watson of Indiana were favorable. Such potent Drys as Idaho's Borah and Nebraska's Norris were opposed. The Anti-Saloon League weaseled, said it would consult its attorney. The press agent of the Methodists announced: "The amendment is particularly needful because of the blatant boastings of certain wealthy men who have told of their transactions with bootleggers...
...food rackets common to all large U. S. cities nowadays. They had formed a poultry association, lined up the poultry butchers (chiefly in Jewish sections of Brooklyn), raised poultry prices and divided the increased profits between butchers and association. The Government claimed that member-butchers were allotted certain customers, that nonmember butchers were intimidated and assaulted. One Government witness, a onetime association member, apparently remembered nothing of the story he had last winter recited to a Grand Jury. "I received an injury to my jaw." said he, "and it affected my memory...
Having made these generous proposals President Masaryk sternly declared, according to Dr. Rajniss, that he is aware of certain secret overtures recently made by Dictator Count Stephen Bethlen to Rumania with a view to enlisting that country's aid in wresting back all Czechoslovakia's once Hungarian territory, including Bratislava. "The Rumanian Government have loyally revealed these facts to us," President Masaryk was declared to have concluded, "But . . . we still prefer to achieve a friendly agreement with Hungary...
...Friend the King. William Faversham is a vestige of that genial era, not long past, when certain actors with favorable features had but to smile manfully, lift their eyebrows and bring down the house. These popular fellows appeared in mellow legends which were just militaristic enough to permit them to wear epaulets, but not belligerent enough to ruffle their hair. One of the playwrights who devised their handsome parades is A. E. Thomas. Actor Faversham and Playwright Thomas are now responsible for this play about a King who retained his throne through the clever beneficence of a U. S. dowager...
...discussion of the customs and traditions of West Point is a discussion of the Academy itself. In the long life of the Corps, certain unwritten habits of conduct have developed, and many stories of former escapades have been handed down...