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...jist Congress a variety of sniping proposals was advanced by the Philippine independence bloc. One was that sugar imports should be limited. Another was that Filipino immigration to the U. S. should be sharply restricted. A third was that the islands should be put under the coastwise shipping law which would have prohibited all but U. S. vessels from plying between the Philippines and the U. S. All these ideas President Hoover stoutly resisted and on one occasion Secretary of State Stimson, as the islands' onetime Governor General, marched to the Capitol and told Congress to stop plaguing...
...sennin' ye back TIME for Sept. 24 jist as it cam tae me, because I haena time tae strauchen it oot. If TIME hisna time tae fauld it ony ither wy than on the bias, an' wi' the aidges o't crush't an' crumple't like the heid o' a pine brod that has been hemmer't by a 10 year auld boy, I dinna want it, for I haena time tae airn't oot sae the pages can be turn't an' read. The last nummer...
...jist like teeth," said a Scotswoman, commenting on men in general. " They are ill to get. When ye get them they are a constant source of vexation, and when ye lose them, what a gap they leave...
...Back" hits bottom in a low dive in Shanghai and utters the thrilling words that he is "Going to go back, every step of the way, and, by Heck, he's going to take Her with him", it is small surprise that the St. James audience think "he's. jist grand...
...think that men came from monkeys. "What was his name, John?" "I have forgott'n, sorr." "Was it Darwin?" "Ah! yes, Dorwhin. Well, this man went to Californy and dug in the ground twenty feet - twenty feet, sorr! and he came upon a skull of a mon that looked jist like a monkey's and thin again jist like a mon's. And so he thought that mon must have come from monkeys. But, belikely the sea came in wan toime and covered up this mon, and that's why they found him there; but he wasn't a monkey...