Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief Bacon Rind of the Osage tribe arose and intoned, nasally, the saga of "Cousin Charley" Curtis, Republican nominee for Vice President of the U. S.
When the dance?a "Kaw Special"? was over, there were more speeches. Mrs. Elizabeth Curtis Colvin, sister of "Cousin Charley," stammered: "It isn't my fault, but I want you to know that I?that we? are all very proud of Charley."
Short, swart, smiling "Cousin Charley" was not there. After poking things into and taking things out of his desk at the Capitol in Washington, he proceeded to Providence, R. I., to stay with his darkly handsome daughter, Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight. Mrs. Knight's father-in-law, C. Prescott Knight...
Came a curious revelation. Some one looked up the baptismal record of Charles Curtis. It was at the Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic) Church in St. Mary's, Kan. Dated April 15, 1860, it was signed by L. Dumortier, Jesuit priest, missionary to the Potawatomies. In St. Mary's it was...
News photographers begged Nominee Curtis to pose for them in the act of farming. Honest, he retorted: "You've got to take me as I am. I'm not farming."