Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President listened while Democratic Governor Bulow of South Dakota assailed the Republican tariff. The Governor, tall, lean, ruddy complexioned, with a long, thin face and rather a dominating nose, maintained that farmers must be given fair treatment if "this country is to long survive." Governor Bulow felt that if the "discriminatory" tariff were not remedied, the farmer would have to be given assistance in the form of "artificial price-fixing." Even this bow to the McNary-Haugen bill prompted no reply from the President who came with the intention of making no speech and left with the knowledge that...
...Finance Minister, M. Poincaré was defending his latest budget against the tacking on of a ruinously costly amendment to increase the salaries of all civil servants retroactively from August, 1926. Because civil employes are excessively numerous and vote-potent in France, many of the Deputies (reputedly a majority) felt that they dared not vote against the measure last week, fearing to displease their constituents. As they listened to M. Poincare, he wooed and persuaded them against their wills, thus: ". . . That civil servants are underpaid compared to the pre-War standard is admitted by everyone. I myself would gladly vote...
...Elks should attend an annual convention, the convention city would be badly crowded. Though 10,000 Elks dropped out or died in the past year, there are still more than 800,000 of them, in all walks of life.* Cincinnati felt comfortably full last week with some 5,000 of the 800,000 on hand?marching, singing, trapshooting, eating "burgoo" (Kentucky stew), watching fireworks. Purple, the Elk's color, hung everywhere. "Hello, Bill! Are you an Elk?"* was the phrase of the week...
...nostalgia that comes to those who voyage on desert places, land or water. Her husband, Per Hansa, walked through the waves, talking to the horses, to Olamund, their son. Beret looked at the dry and lonely sea. Even after the arrival in Dakota Territory, remembering her Minnesota village, she felt this loneliness closing around her. The sky and the green floor made no familiar prisoning niche. Their infinity disregarded her. Nothing she did could influence or change them. She watched her son growing up, her husband fighting against the earth. More immigrants sail their prairie schooners westward, and Beret prays...
...girl. When, in school, "we were given the choice of three subjects for com position: 'The Autobiography of a Weathercock,' 'A Day in the Country,' and 'What I would do with Five Pounds.' I thought them much better subjects than usual, and immediately felt ideas pouring into my head for 'The Weathercock.' Yes, there he was on the church tower ... up in the wind . . . Jenny sat beside me biting her pen and looking cross and unhappy. ... The bell rang. 'Oh teacher . . i.!' 'Still haven't finished Clare? Afraid...