Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Going home for Christmas, jaded Congressmen had time and opportunity to read about themselves in the language of one of themselves. Red-headed (but amiable) Representative Loring M. Black Jr. of Brooklyn, N. Y., in an article entitled "Congress Isn't So Bad" in Plain Talk for January wrote as follows: ". . . The question before the house is: Has Congress become a governmental vermiform appendix? "In the House of Representatives' membership of 435 there is not enough hair on the involved faces to stuff a pin cushion. . . . "The more lenient critics believe we are unacquainted with contemporary poetry. Well...
Playing the Game. It might be natural for spectators to suppose that the game referred to in the title is none other than the old-fashioned badger game. But in the midst of the machinations the girl-crook decides that, however profitable it may be, the badger game isn't cricket. Unaccountably, she has fallen in love with the husband whom she had married for profit. In the last act she turns her dishonest companions over to the police, recaptures from them some of the money she has hornswoggled out of her husband, and prepares for a legitimate honeymoon...
...still a legal institution. Italy rattles her arms in France's ear; Great Britain looks at Japan and prepares Singapore; Japan, the United States and Great Britain engage in a naval armament race; Russia growls at Rumania; in times of peace everyone is making ready. But isn't war unthinkable? Would it be possible to prosecute another war successfully with the memory of the Great War's horrors so fresh in the minds of the people? War is always unthinkable-until it happens. Then propaganda is organized; patriotism is preached; popular apathy and aversion give...
...been well advertised. It has ben called the hardest of college competitions, and it probably is. At any rate, the editors take rather a pride in thinking so and saying so. The incipient candidate is deluded with no fond fairy tales; he is not told that it really isn't so hard after all when you actually get into it. He is warned that he is selling his soul and body into a nine weeks' bondage; yet he comes out just the same, and is idiot enough to tell his roommates, at the rare times when he sees them, that...
...Dave" Kirkwood, irrepressible Laborite, then shouted: "This isn't a boy's job; it's a man's job!" After the momentary merriment had died down, he suggested a motion that Sir Philip, who was still standing, be not heard. The speaker dissented and disorder again broke out. The speaker then ordered an adjournment of an hour and the mace was removed, signifying that the session was ended...