Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor the Democrats scoffed at these peace gestures-and who could scoff better than Sen. Pat Harrison, the jester from Mississippi? Grinning malignantly at the Republican side of the Chamber, he said: You've had political toothache ever since the November elections and now you are applying every remedy to ease your suffering and your pain." Then he looked at Sen. David Reed of Pennsylvania and said, "Mellon's man Friday"; turned to lame duck Senator Harreld with something about a "tall gusher from Oklahoma...
...Washington, Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, Grant, Roosevelt were hero-warrior Presidents. Two other dashing generals, but poor politicians, Winfleld Scott and W. S. Hancock, were nominated and defeated. Admiral George Dewey tried for the nomination in 1900 and fizzled...
...probably frightened at the sight of my calligraph) gave out,' said I, 'and I have ever since had to write with my left.' The MS., which fetched $1,025, was auctioned by Major Hon. John Jacob Astor, Chairman of the London Times Publishing Company; and William Harrison, who has been buying up London illustrated newspapers, offered him $25,000,000, 'if you are prepared to include the Times.' Sir Harry Lauder cabled to ask whether medals went with...
...Nervous Wreck (Harrison Ford). Owen Davis' play, turned into slapstick, presents the usual "Christie Comedy" stuff: Ches Conklin, Mack Swain. Phyl Haver, smashed dishes, broken pates, all whirling around in clownish jamboree, affording some measure of Punch and Judy merriment...
...orchestra, well-known for its series of excellent conductors, will have as conductor this year, as last, G. S. Stanton '27, who has studied violin under Harrison Keller and worked under the batons of Agide Jacchia, conductor of the "Pops" and Serge Koussevitsky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...