Word: handed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I note that Mr. J. H. Landers of Temple, Tex., has called your hand about the height of skyscrapers; reminded you that the omission of the Amicable Building at Waco, Tex., was a grave one. Mr. Landers might have related an amusing quip well known in the Southwest. It is told that a gentleman from Shreveport or Tulsa (the old chronicles are not explicit) was made acquainted with a Waconian. "So you're from Waco, are you?" he drawled. "Yes suh, thass right," agreed the Waconian. "And may I ask, suh. what floor do you live on?" wisecracked...
...deck again at the Capitol when the House passed the 15-cruiser bill last year. He handed out yellow-bound pamphlets abusing the British, bristling with statistics to prove the inferiority of the U. S. fleet. Only a few Congressmen realized they were being supplied with second-hand arguments, the same material Lobbyist Shearer had used at Geneva. In the midst of his lobbying, he made this statement...
...front of the newspapers La Prensa and La Critica. Afterward, ecstatic, they sang, cheered, paraded the streets until midnight. One man who did not parade: a pudgy auto salesman named Luis Angel Firpo, onetime "wild bull of the Pampas," who has boasted he could whip Campolo with one hand. In Campolo's little hometown, Quilmes, the populace surrounded his home, wildly cheered his aged parents...
...that great building projects have for centuries appealed to the imagination of French rulers. Nowadays, however, the world's great monuments of architecture are reared in the U. S. It was inevitable that sooner or later the French would be driven by their imagination to take a hand in the game. Last week it happened. The French Government, in combination with Builder Irwin S. Chanin and Banker Simon William Straus, dramatically revealed a $50,000,000 Gallic dream...
...Milwaukee, where he has an agency, he headed the Lindbergh reception committee two years ago. The policemen there call him "C. C." Though not feeling well one day in Rome, he won a bet by getting an audience with the Pope on 24-hours' notice. He has hand-shaken Mussolini. He also tells how, slipping into an exclusive London night club, he and Mrs. Younggreen came face to face with Edward of Wales. "My wife," says Mr. Younggreen, "touched the Prince...