Word: councilman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Could any man who has joined with Sir Harry Lauder in such a chorus shake off the spell sufficiently to speak ill of him ? Sir Harry's friends would doubtless deny the possiblility; but in Edinburgh last week at a meeting of the Town Council, Mr. Councilman Gilzean struck the table a blow with his doubled fist and shouted...
...Gilzean roundly said that Sir Harry Lauder has not only debased and vulgarized the songs of his country; but that "he portrays a type of Scotchman not found in the heavens above, on the earth beneath, or in waters under the earth." Waxing emphatic, Councilman Gilzean cried: "If that type of Scotchman ever went about Scotland in the flesh, we would pack him off to an asylum...
...Glasgow the shrewd city fathers debated hotly a similar matter: whether they would appropriate £15,000 ($72,900) to entertain the Sovereigns next July. Cried Councilman Douglas MacConaughty, striking the table with his cane: " 'Twud na' be worth it! Ha' we a brass farthin' too many in the common good funds?" His peers, more hospitable, voted the appropriation...
...offense of lese-majesty has evidently become a felony in some parts of America's far-flung empire. Antonio D. Pagua, Councilman-elect of Manila, was convicted yesterday and sentenced to four months' imprisonment on a charge of having insulted Leonard Wood, the present governor-general of the Philippines. The culprit's offence had consisted of referring to the general in a recent political campaign as an "autocrat" and a "usurper of Philippine autonomy",--terms not altogether indefensible in view of the general's well-known partiality for military methods...
...elder brother's departure for Florida that the younger brother appeared in the sunlight. His bald head shone. His eyes gleamed down his firm nose, his moustache bristled. He had been running a couple of farms near Lincoln. Then he decided to run Lincoln. He first became Councilman, next Mayor. He set up a municipal coal pile and brought down coal prices. That coal pile was a feather...