Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus were illustrated on the Senate floor two predominant Dry attitudes toward Prohibition: the Dry who considers it his duty to tell all he sees; the Dry whose social sensibility keeps him silent. Senator Brookhart was variously hailed throughout the land as one who (although two years late) had done a civic service, or as one who had accepted hospitality and then flouted its rules. Senator Smoot, similarly, was viewed either as a dry-voting hypocrite who had kept mum, or as a gentleman who had not gone out of his way to impose his public character on a private...
...Senators had small hope and no great intention of blocking Mr. Legge's confirmation, but they enjoyed their inquisition. That he enjoyed it too he showed when all their questions were done, by quietly asking permission to make a statement. Surprised, the Senators agreed. Cheerfully, Mr. Legge declared...
...away to see what can be done...
Refrain from throwing vest into audiences, as damage could easily be done by buttons...
...native of St. Petersburg, made her reputation in Europe with this role, sang it in Manhattan 19 years ago at the U. S. premiére given at the Metropolitan Opera. Then her voice was so big and deep that she could even sing baritone airs, had done so once in Russia, as pinch-hitter for the hero in Rubinstein's Demon. Last week her countess was again a fearsome, palsied old hag in shawls; the voice, though thinner, still sure; and her presence the most compelling on the stage...