Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was Copeland of New York wearing his inevitable red carnation, and McKellar of Tennessee, who became irate because the Chair did not see him when he rose. Underwood of Alabama came and went, playing an unobtrusive part in the front row. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the great denunciator, remained for the most part silent, save when he rose to deliver one of his thunderbolts across the House. Two rows further back, pince-nez on nose, sat the sententious Ashurst of Arizona, intent on periodically expressing himself with great deliberation, learning and politeness. King of Utah, very 'businesslike, examined every...
...contrast, Henry Cabot Lodge came and went like a silent wraith. He seemed frail, apparently steadied himself by the desks, so that a sudden draught might not upset him. He paused to chat with this one, with that one, with La Follette, with Pat Harrison, and then retired to recline in the background with legs stretched out and jacket tightly buttoned...
...closing of Congress gave Senator Pat Harrison some fine opportunities to tongue-lash Republicans, and he was not slow to seize his opportunities...
...Harrison: "We have not blocked any farm legislation here. We have been appealing to Senators on the other side to do something but they would not do it. They were busy trying to pass the Mellon plan, which gave 1,200 people in the country out of 3,555,000 a great reduction and prevented the enormous number of 3,500,000 from being given the greater reduction of the Democratic plan. Senators on the other side were too busy looking after the special interests of the country to take care of the farmers, and when they go back home...
...supremely silly. Sentiment is splashed around with a whitewash brush. An attempt has been made to jazz up this fragrantly simple story of the lovers who buried their love beneath a tree as they were forced to marry others, and had their souls reunited at last in their descendants. Harrison Ford, Ethel Shannon, Clara Bow and William Norris pop in and out of the story, doubling on their tracks through three generations, in a way that will probably confuse all but those who have grown up with the original operetta...