Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marvel at the staggering nerve of Mr. J. T. Sanders, Sioux Falls Plumber. (TIME, March 25). We, all of us, are so at the mercy of his 11 Trovatore musicians that plumbers have become demigods shattering the peace of our bedrooms and laying waste our bankrolls. I know a God-fearing man who got drunk for a week after a little fairy of a plumber got into his home for one day. It took the God-fearing citizen a year to find his religion again. And Mr. Sanders runs true to his tribe; he's oh, so chesty...
Quoth Arkansas' quipsome Caraway: "Those men don't know a horse from...
...voices more potently the demands for super-protection for U. S. industries and manufactures than Joseph R. Grundy, Bristol, Pa., worsted maker, cash collector extraordinary for the G. O. P. (TIME, Feb. 18). In Miami re- cently Senator Smoot was asked about tariff revision. Replied he: "I don't know. I haven't seen...
...desk - autocratically directing a fleet of 174 vessels totaling 731,688 tons - he is not without a wholly German and quite paradoxical resemblance to the French "Little Corporal." Frugal and precise of tongue, his only recent public utterance was badgered out of him by reporters who wanted to know what the N. G. L. meant, exactly, by announcing that the Bremen and Europa would be "five-day boats."* Goaded, Herr Stimming barked: "I mean that the Bremen and the Europa will cross from America to England within five times 24 hours ! They will reach Germany within six times 24 hours...
...must know ourselves! We must confess that we are terribly poor and that our people are suffering miseries which justly horrify the civilized peoples. We must confess that our political life is corrupt to the core, and that most of our homes are nests of crime, of injustice, oppression, lynching and suicide...