Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Blanton of Texas got the floor. After a characteristically long-winded beginning, he said: ". . . Have the citizens of this land become so helpless that they have to have Grandmother Linthicum from Maryland walk around with them to protect them from poisoned alcohol...
...cabled that the beings bombed were "only animals." Cows had been mangled in humane preference to mangling their tribesmen owners. Reason : some of the tribesmen were suspected of murdering recently British District Commander Captain Ferguson. Result: 34 chiefs of the Lau tribe surrendered, last week, to a small British land force. The chiefs, cowed, were then obliged to watch while British bombers completely demolished their sacred shrine, the Pyramid of Dengkur, long a place of idolatrous, witch-doctoring worship...
...Rotund and glossy Argentine Delegate Honorio Pueyrredon was first to potently outpop. His vastly rich and extensively land owning family enable him to flout whom he will with impunity. At the first session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, in Geneva, he arose and stalked out when Argentine interests seemed threatened. He stands high in the ranks of the strong, opposition, "Radical" party of Argentina. He has maintained himself as Ambassador at Washington by sheer prestige and almost in despite of Argentine President Marcelo de Alvear...
...statement more positive than this double negative would have given Switzer land ground for offense; but Chancellor Seipel had made his meaning crystal clear. He heads a Republican Government which would gladly offer to the League for a headquarters the old, enormous, sumptuous Imperial Palace of the Habsburgs at Vienna. Thus the League would save itself the expense of building a new headquarters at Geneva to replace the present ramshackle Secretariat and the mouldering Salle de la Reformation (where the Assembly sits). Reputedly the League has considered spending ?1,000,000 on its proposed new buildings and most of that...
...second act are designed to explain what a pugilist thinks about when he is knocked unconscious. It seems this particular pugilist wanted to be an architect and marry a maid above his station. His distrustful manager suggested that if he persisted in these inflated notions he would land at police headquarters. These disheveled inventions are woven into a play, mad enough to fool most of the spectators for much, of the evening. When the hero took the stage and exterminated virtually the entire troupe with revolver shots it was patent that something was askew. Tangles and untangles, it was fairly...