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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little black man in Mississippi." It was a very palpable hit which Pat Harrison took with his usual good humor, and then proceeded to urge a resolution that Congress send to the Philippines its own investigation committee. The Senator who champions the dignity of Congress will always be heard willingly in the Senate. But the Ohio Senators refused unanimous consent to give the resolution immediate consideration...
...eastern Illinois district was not entirely civilized? the Herrin massacres soon happened. Rough ways, rough words were not unknown. Money was made, lost, quickly, loosely. Judge English became careless. He got into the habit of assigning lucrative bankruptcy cases to his good friend, Mr. Thomas. In court he was heard, allegedly, to curse, to refer to a man as a?. Slipshod, he never got rich, but when he needed money to pay for an automobile, Friend Thomas provided it. Enemies, easily and multitudinously created, whispered to the St. Louis Post Despatch, which, hot for a good story, spent...
...last week, all this having been done and finished, the Senate got down to the serious business of the Italian debt. After many hours of debate, there was a lull. Veteran Senators became aware that the clerk was reading something. Listening, they heard it to be a seething telegram. Mystified, they whisperingly questioned one another, learned that the Junior Senator from Rhode Island (Jesse Houghton Metcalf) had sent to the clerk this telegram from a constituent, Angelo Morello, who had become incensed by re marks made the previous day by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri.* "Scurrilous, venomous...
...last for an encore, which was sung with a power that convinced everyone he at last had reached his best. Another encoure was demanded; and M. Marcoux sang ::The Open Road" and received a redoubled and prolonged applause which ended as splendid a recital as Boston has recently heard...
...firing of bon-mots that whiz like shells by night but look like duds in the morning. Caroline, the female cad of this chronicle, is said to have served Love, "the capricious boy who makes bedfellows of us all." Another young lady is directly addressed by a term seldom heard outside the dogshow. If you are of a cheerful cast, however, you cannot but recognize much mother wit among the refuse, a native tang in the bawdy breeze. The story: the leggy daughter of a long line of muddling-through country gentlemen embraces higher education, marries an elfish gentleman...