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Last July, while St. Louisans were perspiring through one of their hottest recorded summers, the resourceful Post-Dispatch startled them out of their discomfort by beginning a series of sensational registration fraud exposures. Day by day the newspaper printed pictures of many a vacant lot, unoccupied building, bawdy house, saloon and cheap hotel listed on the Election Board's "revised and corrected" election rolls as domiciles of phantom voters. Soon private citizens, civic organizations, hungry Republicans turned out of office four years ago in the New Deal landslide, set up a loud clamor, began...
...water to cool and set the wax, and with this mold as a model a contact lens with identical curvature was ground. Dr. Feinbloom demonstrated a fitting of his lens to a patient's eye. Of 112 people, 90% of them women, wearing Feinbloom lenses, none reports any discomfort. Cost...
...with a description of Washington during Jefferson's administrations, Author Bowers details the uncomfortable 11-day trip from New York by stagecoach, the hunting within the city limits, the horse-racing and card-playing that provided most of the entertainment for Washington dwellers, the strange mixture of physical discomfort and intellectual vitality that characterized the Capital's society. There the 58-year-old Jefferson, scandalizing British Minister Merry by receiving him in comfortable, heelless slippers, created an international sensation when he dispensed with precedents at State functions. The relationship of Mrs. Merry to Irish Poet Tom Moore...
...after years of argument, Congress appropriated money to build a suitable home for the Supreme Court, which for nearly 70 years had been meeting in dusty discomfort in the original Senate chamber in the Capitol. Chairman of the building committee was Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who easily persuaded his fellow members to appoint white-haired, dignified Cass Gilbert as architect...
Hence one day Secretary Morgenthau went to Capitol Hill to answer questions. Mr. Morgenthau was squirming in quiet discomfort...