Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noticed your write-up, in TIME dated July 23 about "Tom Heeney." I wish you bunch of "pen pushers" would learn to respect "Old Age." You mention his mother who is 80 years old doing a day's milking well, I just want you to know that it takes a good woman to do a day's milking, and even if she is 80 years old, I bet, she could show some of you birds how to keep alive, why don't you Pen Pushers be "sports" and give the people from the other side a chance...
...second vetoing of the McNary-Haugen bill last spring, Mr. Peek threatened the Republican Party with dire happenings. Nothing happened. Then he went to Houston and had the satisfaction of seeing the controversial principle of McNary-Haugenism written into the Democratic platform. He visited Manhattan last week to learn how the Democrats proposed to elaborate their platform. He arrived with assurances, much like those he voiced prior to the G. O. P. convention, that the Farmer was angry at the G. O. P., that the Farm Problem could be solved by McNary-Haugenism and by nothing else...
...local force, the Police Glee Club, exposed as follows: For two concerts, in halls with a capacity of some 1,000 persons, 40,000 tickets were printed and sold, the bulk of them in night clubs, restaurants, speakeasies. Manhattan's policemen were not vastly surprised, either, to learn that the Police Glee Club's accounts, handled by two officers of rank, were $22,000 short...
...fitting shoes. Each day at noon she bent over her stove, but she was preparing eggs, not unguents. To her alone is entrusted the task of cooking lunch for Son Louis, now a fattish little man with the traditional French pointed mustache. The widow Angeline has never troubled to learn English, but she knows that Son Louis has made money. She knows he has four motor cars, a home in fashionable Park Avenue, another in a New York suburb, four more in Europe. She also knows he rarely visits them, leaving their luxuries to his U. S. wife...
...July 16) when they were compared by a committee of 14 moralists to the rude night-club entertainers of Manhattan. Japanese Geisha girls count U. S. music a noisy nonsense and even the finest of U. S. singers their inferiors by far. What last week was their horror to learn that one of the night-club entertainers who had been compared to them was not only their artistic inferior but a member of the lowest class of civilized creatures, a common bargee, the U. S. counterpart of those yellow specimens who live on rafts and junks in the rivers...