Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some of the hot-headed cabinet members started to take up a collection, but with a coolness that has become proverbial in our family, Gamaliel Forecast stepped into the breach. "Why not wait, Mr. President, until the War of 1812 and get even with them for the whole business. Jim Madison will be president then and you won't have to worry about it. Wars are nuisances, anyway...
Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington, "blue law" booster, is having trouble with A. Scott Bullitt, Wet and potent Democrat. Each candidate is anxious to have Senator "Jim" Reed investigate the other's campaign expenses. A Jones advocate cried last week: "If you can get President Coolidge to come out and tell the people of Washington State that he won't let Senator Jones close the moving picture houses on Sunday, I can promise you that the Senator will be re-elected...
Missouri. Harry B. Hawes, Democrat, v. Senator George H. Williams, Republican. It is a battle of personalities, with scarcely a wink separating the candidates. Both are Wet; both flay the World Court. Mr. Hawes has the blessing of Senator "Jim" Reed, who, Republicans say, is no blessing to any one. Missouri and Massachusetts are the two most doubtful states in this autumn's elections...
...triteness of Jim Tally's plot, exaggerated coarseness of language, superficiality of dialogue, are more than offset by two redeeming features: the authentic note (struck most poignantly when Actor Robeson sings the spiritual, "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child") of the Negro's inability to find himself in complicated mazes of the white world; and Mr. Robeson's personality. His organ-like voice croons, booms in husky, mellow tones filled with all the languor and ebullience of his naive race. In the third act he appears stripped to the buff-an Apollo in black marble...
James E. ("Big Jim") Watson, Republican Senator from Indiana: "Last week my name was tossed about in newspaper headlines because of two events. Neither one of them pleased me. I was linked with the sensational K. K. K. investigations in Indiana, a fact which my opponents say will damage my chances for re-election to the Senate. Then I was injured in an automobile accident near Indianapolis. My car went into a ditch to save crashing into another machine. I received a scalp wound which it took ten stitches to close, a sprained wrist and ankle, many bruises. I will...