Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week to the executive office lobby went Clark Brown of Climax, Mich. He, too, had a manner and for three hours sat at a table scribbling a message to the President. He went away to return again at noon, insistent upon putting in the Hoover hand his message?"The Final Edict of Heaven and Earth." When he was stopped, he became violent, lost his manner, tussled until bodyguards overpowered and hospitalized him. Hoover bodyguards are now on their toes, manner or no manner...
...perform a political miracle equal to Mr. Raskob's financial one by developing harmonious issues as they debate their way through the questions before the Congress. At present, intraparty schisms on prohibition, power, taxation, tariff, farm relief, are nowhere more deep and durable than on the left-hand side of the U. S. Senate chamber...
Loves of Casanova (French). Cut from 17 to seven reels, colored by hand, mercilessly expurgated, these episodic reminiscences of an 18th Century confidence-man invoke a dreariness entirely foreign to the life of the central character, but occasionally relieved by witty and good-humored subtitles written in the first person. Best shot: Casanova kissing a woman's hand...
...while the adventure into chivalry of this sort appeals to the envious imagination of the home front, it is probably with a sigh of relief that the returning veterans contemplate the friendly opportunity of shaking the warm, limp hand of a president...
...making his attack Simmons was anything but original for almost every day for the past few weeks there has been some similar outbreak. On the other hand his statement does come officially from the head of the largest security market in the world and shows clearly that the Federal Reserve Board has hard sledding ahead...