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Poet Laureate John Dryden wrote pat parts for her saucy tongue; she even essayed tragic roles, much to the disgust of Gossip Samuel Pepys. Pepys was mighty proud of going behind the scenes once and meeting Actress Nell. Said he: "I kissed her, and so did my wife: and a mighty pretty soul she is." When she was 17 Lord Buckhurst gave her her first vacation from the stage; soon after, the Merry Monarch himself looked her way. Nell's cockney wit was never abashed by grand company. She made her royal lover laugh by saying that "he might...
...Capitol. Many were the Democratic oaths sworn over the cloakroom cuspidors. Senator Tydings threatened to resign from the Senate and "let some one else from Maryland come here and look on if he wants to." Arkansas' Senator Robinson. Democratic Floor Leader, fairly boiled with indignation and disgust. Already the wily "Kingfish" had captured the allegiance of his junior colleague, Mrs. Hattie Caraway. Desperate, Senator Robinson moved for cloture. a rare parliamentary proceeding limiting debate to one hour per Senator...
...revamp the Federal Reserve system. Senator Long, opposed to its branch banking features, was out to talk it to death. He waved his arms in mighty circles. He bludgeoned the Senate with loud arrogant words. He drove most of his colleagues from the Chamber in utter disgust. But almost single-handed he did succeed in stalling all important Senate business for a solid week...
However, to accept the facts is not to condone them. While the action of the Commission is quite ineffectual, it may serve to emphasize the present growing disgust with *port* in America's so-called institutions of learning. But any actual improvement in the situation cannot be expected to come from outside pressure, it must come from a revulsion of feeling on the part both of the student members of the colleges in question and of the outside world which has hitherto tacitly admitted, if not applauded, the practice of athletic scholarships...
Unable to give her speech because of the constant interruption of cheers and snatches of song Carrie finally gave up in disgust, abandoning the Harvard boys to their horrible fate...