Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the Barebones Parliament was so called "with due regard to the original metaphor" is almost too delightful and original a theory to be spoiled by the prosaic recital of fact. Still, as everyone even slightly acquainted with English history should know, it was named after a member for the city of London, a puritan with the puritanical name of Praise-God Barebones. His brother, by the way, bore the still more astounding name of "If-Christ-had-not-come- thou-wouldst-have-been-damned Barebones...
...satisfied purchasers. One testimonial was from Senator Gould. From the U. S. Capitol in 1927 he had written: ". . . After a good deal of bother I got some very fair results. . . . The case of cordials . . . was very much appreciated, especially by the feminine side of the fam ily. ... As you know I come from a Prohibition state and I am supposed to be a prohibitionist but I am about as loyal to the Prohibition element as some of these Southern Democrats are to the Democratic party. . . . While I find it is not policy to be too outspoken as to my sentiments...
...even sit down to dinner together. The Old Dominion joined the Union in 1928. I haven't gotten over it yet, I'm so happy! Now I don't like to conduct a losing campaign and I'm not going to. There is always a way if you know how. I know nothing about political science but the science of politics is different...
French officers in Morocco did not hesitate to say that the recall of General Freydenberg was entirely political. The Ait Yacoub affair was causing uncomfortable debates in the Chamber of Deputies. Socialist and Communist deputies wanted to know the cause of this latest Moroccan outbreak. There were stories of Moorish villages bombed by aviators, Moorish women and children killed. The Poincare government, attacked, recalled Freydenberg, whose brusque methods had been if anything too effective...
...what she likes to eat (string beans, chocolate ice cream) and drink (milk). About her other likes and dislikes she is less reticent. Yellow is her favorite color (see cover). Telephone books are her pet aversion. It is hard for her to find numbers because she does not know her alphabet very well. She was taught to sing...