Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aspire to climb The social stair, be warned in time, And saved from treading unaware Upon a step that isn't there. Each proud and unfamiliar name May prove to be a source of shame, If in pronouncing it you make, From lack of knowledge, a mistake. Great Britain absolutely teems With men and women surnamed Wemyss, And everywhere the tyro strolls There lurks an unsuspected Knollys. He's certain to be greeted glumly Who gives four syllables to Cholmondcley, Or by his ignorance disarms The good intentions of a Glamis. Who'd blame a self-respecting...
...Senate a letter he received from one Roger W. Mintone of Boston: "If the enclosed [a press clipping] represents your idea of the ethics of a guest invited to a private dinner?to broadcast tales about his host ?the suspicion that you are a charter member of the Great American Polecat Club seems amply confirmed. . . . Pretty sickening disclosure of the standard of honor of a Senator...
...obtained Nebraska as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Scouts Lewis, Clark, Pike, Fremont explored it. By early pioneers it was called a "great desert entirely unfit for agriculture." Across it were laid the Oregon trail, the Mormon trail to Utah, the "Pony Express" route, the Union Pacific Railroad. The Diamond Jubilee celebrated not Nebraska's 75th year as a State, but its 75th as a political unit. In 1854, by the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" it became a territory, was permitted to decide its slavery status by "squatter sovereignty" (vote of the settlers). It sent troops...
Agriculturally prolific, Nebraska today ranks third in corn production, second in winter wheat. It is developing a lusty sugar beet industry, is a leader in the nurture of cattle and hogs. Famed it is too for its unique and sightly "skyscraper" Capitol building at Lincoln, designed by the late, great Bertram Grosvernor Goodhue...
...Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia for the No. 1 municipal office in the U. S. by an eight-to-three margin. The only surprise in the election was a large "protest" vote given Socialist Norman Thomas (174,931 out of 1,314,820 votes cast). Said Mayor Walker: "One great issue was settled-a man can wear his own clothes. . . . My ambition is to make everybody in the city smile. . . . You ain't seen nothing yet." Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me! . . . People don't resent graft any more. . . . At least give the corpse...