Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the Gardner Said Sirs: You might like to know what our gardner (a very comical man) said when he finished chuckling over your The Voter's Dream cartoon. "Well, Sir!" he said, "nothing ain't tickled my wrinkled old wattles so in ten year!" Old John comes from the "Coolidge Country" in Vermont and he tells me that the expression "tickling one's wattles" is used by one of the most distinguished men born in those parts. By "wattles" it seems that they mean the skinny, baggy fore part of a typical Vermonter's throat...
...those people are sensitive, they have a little pride. When they give, they give their shirt; when they take they apologize and soon repay. I don't blame the Red Cross for this, but those stupid, insulting clerks they hire to distribute the provisions. If they know you they give you beans, and bacon, if you are stranger they refuse you and let you starve. This is the first letter she has ever written me in more than 20 years. I must give vent to my emotions. I am not writing for notoreity - not for debates - but for action...
...course, we know as sensible people that the tariff argument can and has been used for the purpose of covering a multitude of political sins ... a handy smoke screen." He pointed out that the Republican tariff plank was seven lines long in 1920, two pages long...
...know how much is known here about that great Middle West of America but it has got the healthiest kind of conscience to be found in the world. It was that conscience which abolished slavery and I believe it will ultimately abolish savagery of war?I hope with the aid of the British Empire...
...expected to appreciate the play, and applaud opportunely, while the rest will be good Romans. During the intermission there will be a feature act in mule-driving. This weeks drama promises to be one of the best early season wows, leading up to the final bow-wow. You will know the play in over when the whistle blows and the actors drop their work. Push, do not walk, to the nearest exit...