Word: donning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I wasn't attacking the President. . . . I have no quarrel with the President. I haven't seen much drinking in Washington. . . . We don't have bootleg in my house, but it is common knowledge that there is lots of drinking. I've been here six years...
"I'd be a silly ass if I thought for a moment that a man could go to Geneva without power, backing or prestige and break up a conference. I regard Shearer as an undesirable man to have around. He was likely to do more harm than good. He wouldn...
Calling out his entire command, planting one foot on a barracks porch railing, scowling his world-famed scowl, the General made a speech. "You birds," he said,"took an oath some time ago to defend the Constitution. Don't let the news stun you, but the Prohibition law is part...
He reposed his elbow on his knee, shoved his cap over to an effectively hard-boiled angle, and went on: "I understand that there is some difference of opinion among civilians concerning the right and wrong of prohibition. Some of it got into camp, but those on the negative side...
Aside from the Marx brothers, and there are only three of them who count, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico, the show is a better than average musical production. Such a statement is distinctly damning it with faint praise; but it need not worry any one because these gentlemen so overshadow the...