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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Profiting by the work of such hotel-builders as Boldt, Haan, Sterry, Bauman, Bowman, Muschenheim, Statler, Mr. Bernstein has introduced a magnificence that could be the inspiration only of an able Jew. There are telephones at every turn, express elevators that fly up like harnessed rockets and drop down like oiled meteors. Lounge rooms, gorgeously decorated, allure business-weary limbs with divans and sofas and curving love-chairs; while upstairs, opening upon corridors carpeted with rugs into which feet sink as into perfumed snow, bridal suites and grand suites and supersuites await their imminent occupants with tapestries of many various...
...Times' questionnaire has thus proved that the majority of Democratic Committeemen willing to express an opinion do not care to have their party repeat its previous performance. To students who care to view the questionnaire in a detached manner, it exhibits man, the political animal, re-acting unscientifically on the basis of a single instance. Even those who do not react stand pat only on the ground that they have not been sufficiently horrified...
...blasting of Nessie's fame is simply a matter of a few street conversations and telephone calls. Brother Northcutt turns out his masked inquisitors, and Nessie not being found, the bastinadoes of righteousness descend upon Abner when he returns to marry the girl. Nessie, seeking refuge under an express train, is rescued and married by the village infidel, Belshue the jeweler, a mournful, middle-aged creature, who was the chief object of her missionary work before her downfall...
...name of nearly 20,000,000 members and adherents, we express our admiration for your consistent devotion to the duties of your great office and congratulate you heartily upon the success of your Administration...
...been said that republics are ungrateful; but you will agree with me that this is not the case. . . . What we sometimes do here, in order to express our appreciation, is to give a man a public dinner and that is a doubtful pleasure nowadays as long as we have to be 'dry.' We all hope that the Secretary will remain in office much longer than this law will last, so that when we do give him a public dinner it will...