Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women's suffrage, the widespread influence of modernistic schools of thought, and the unhampered liberty of the rising generation, it brings up an issue which today is far from dead--the great thundercloud of 30 years ago is still anything but a pale glimmer of heat lightening on the distant horizon...
Wilson went to No. 2340 S Street to die. His Cabinet scattered to their distant homes whence they had been so glamorously summoned. Mild-mannered Albert Sidney Burleson, Postmaster General (1913-21) was off to Austin, Tex., to build up & neglected law practice; behind him he left the days when he was overlord of mails, telephone and telegraph, when cables could be confiscated at his command. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), no longer master of Admirals, went back to the sleepy North Carolina town of Raleigh. There he shifted from cutaway to a well-worn coat, settled...
...investigation of the missing ten would be interesting and instractive. A few of them no doubt have died; a few, possibly, have met with some misfortune because of which they have voluntarily dropped out of sigtht; and the rest have gone, for reasons of their own, to distant corners of the earth...
...other Republicans; and Democrat, Cole L. Blease of South Carolina, whom only Mr. Heflin robs of the title "Buffoon of the Senate"-were determined to prevent Senator James A. Reed's committee from making any more campaign fund investigations. Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania, particularly, did not want his distant cousin, Mr. Reed of Missouri, to open the ballot boxes which elected slush-tainted William S. Vare. The Pennsylvanian insisted that the regular Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, containing a majority of old-guard Republicans, was best fitted to count these ballots. The result was the Battle...
...only great parliamentary body in the world where such a situation exists. . , . "The hour of 12 o'clock having arrived, the Senate stands in adjournment sine die." Who won the filibuster? Mr. Dawes, the spectator. He was the one whom the laymen cheered. As for the distant cousins-Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania left for a rest in Bermuda with the words: "The Reed investigating committee is dead. There may be strong, healthy men on the committee, but of course, although a burglar may try to jimmy a strong box, there is such a thing in the law as forcible...