Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarkable insight into things. "The day I became President he had just started to work in a tobacco field. When one of his fellow laborers said to him, 'If my father was President I would not work in a tobacco field,' Calvin replied. 'If my father were your father, you would.' "We do not know what might have happened to him under other circumstances, but if I had not been President he would not have raised a blister on his toe, which resulted in blood poisoning, playing lawn tennis in the South Grounds. "In his suffering...
...House, Speaker Longworth and his fellow Republicans planned the personnel of committees which will have to function until April 15. The Committee on Agriculture (to prepare a farm relief bill) was made up. Because of their increased majority in the next Congress, the Republicans took for themselves 15 instead of 14 seats of the 22 on the Agriculture Committee. The Ways & Means Committee (to prepare the tariff bill) was also set in motion. Incidentally Congressman James A. Frear of Wisconsin, a former member of the Committee ejected four years ago for having supported the late, great Senator La Follette...
...delicate question of calling in consulting physicians with or without the consent of the attending doctor is the first to be discussed. Here Doctor Hawes is entirely on the side of the patient, and does not spare his fellow-practitioners who object to having their judgment questioned. On the other side of the picture he arraigns the excitable patients who send for their doctor at unreasonable hours on slight pretexts...
That squash pie? They make it lousy here. Fifteen cents? Why you can get a bigger piece at the Georgian for a dime. Yeah, a lot bigger. Better, too. This here tastes like oatmeal. Don't you eat there any more? I used to, too. The fellow got sore one time, though. I was balancing a glass of milk on my knife blade and it spilled all over somebody's lap and they kicked...
LANGHORNE GIBSON, Vice President of Life: "All of us here at Life extend our deepest sympathy to you and your organization in your great loss. Brit was a great fellow and a great publisher. May your magazine always serve as a fitting monument...