Word: dodo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Major General Reed of Pennsylvania: "The bill's as dead as a dodo. Debate is a mockery . . . but I for one will not agree to let the bill go through without adequate debate...
Would it not be a great blessing to allow the Junior Prom quietly and unmolestedly to join the Dodo, who has for many years been waiting to receive the aimiable Freak-Dance of the college? A resort to the oxygen of a bedizened ballroom and the hypodermic of exciting music would but for a space postpone that extinction which the poor Prom has long coveted and deserved...
Secretary of Labor James John Davis reminisced of iron-puddling, mule driving. The color of his speech was roseate: "The long work day and the long work week is as dead as a dodo. . . . Prosperity is not the product of the classes; it is the product of the masses . . . labor-saving machines are rapidly becoming leisure-producing machines...
Someone has called the Kellogg Peace Pact dead as a dodo. Signed in August at Paris with a pen of gold, welcomed with reservations by governments and with enthusiasm by peoples, it has been killed by the appearance in increasing quantity of the details of the Anglo-French naval agreement and the notes which accompanied that. First--the secrecy attending the agreement; and latest--the unofficial official publication in the Echo de Paris on October 4 of a "summary, exact as possible" of the notes exchanged between the French and British governments in July. The results are these: the British...
...known about the outbreak of the Great War and about treaties between belligerents. Although the United States has stoadfastly refused to come to grips with international organization or contribute to it, it remains to be seen what the Senate will do with the Kellogg Peace Pact, the "dead dodo." And with the coming known of the Anglo-French naval agreement and the circumstances surrounding it, perhaps the Kellogg pact to renounce war as an instrument of national policy may be encouraged to live...