Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drive up to a homestead, two men reach for and pick perhaps one pepper, then the crew and their transportation hunt a tree for shade and well earned rest. I sincerely hope our Senator fails in his mission to get $50,000,000 to increase our troubles. Perhaps Congress will vote him the 0's and not the 5. We who love our State are sticking all the closer. While being poor is no fun, this is the best place in the world to be poor in. We ask for nothing and hope we get what...
...decade or so ago, Manhattan's Hippodrome was famed for monster, lustrous theatricals. Visitors swarmed to see such sights as Bandman Sousa, Skater Charlotte, Diver Annette Kellerman, Buffoon Nat Willis and whole menageries of animals in congress on one huge stage. Behind the scenes was Showman R. H. Burnside, purveyor of size rather than taste...
...Congress Cigar...
They are not sung because, until last week, they have never been published. But they are included in a manuscript copy of the song given to the Library of Congress last week by Leander McCor-mick-Goodhart, Commercial Secretary of the British Embassy...
...drew a check lately-the first he had signed personally in about five years-for 2?. He gave it to a man who had helped him buy a postage stamp. C. Walter Randall, Manhattan attorney, last week called attention to Section 293 of the U. S. Code, passed by Congress the snowy day President Taft was inaugurated, saying: "No person shall make, issue, circulate or pay out any note, check, memorandum, token or other obligation for a less sum than $1, intended to circulate as money or to be received or used in lieu of lawful money of the United...