Word: keepings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page 56, in the review of Heart to Heart, suspector Fazenda never finds the truth concerning trifler Littlefield and the engaging seamstress; for in the end Uncle Joe titters and remarks that he knows something that will keep him laughing for the next twenty years...
...think," concluded Nominee Smith, "I have fairly made out a case here tonight that the Republican Party is seeking to continue its control of this Government under false pretenses. It is seeking to keep that control by misstating and misrepresenting the Democratic attitude, and misstating, by the same token, and misrepresenting its own attitude on a great many of the big questions...
...years of its active existence the Tammany Society, as has been the case with practically every active organization? whether it be political, social, or other, has not been able to keep some scamps from membership...
Accordingly, in order to keep the vote from being practically unanimous, for the choice of Joe Forecast in those Open Spaces where his word is law, I will withhold my prediction until Tuesday morning. I aim only to predict, not to influence public opinion. Not that I couldn't influence it, if I chose, and occasionally have...
...used to take care of the four furnaces in Massachusetts hall when there was only one room on the first floor. A half-hour before examination time, students would come in there and open all the windows. I kept the furnaces going full tilt to keep the building warm, but with the windows open it would get cold as a barn. Then when the professor came in, the students would complain the building was not heated enough, and was too cold for an examination. Generally they were excused and the exam postponed to another...