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Kathryn O'Laughlin, 38. of Hays, Kans. had to lick eight male rivals for the nomination before she could run against the Republican incumbent, Charles I. Sparks, whom she defeated handily. Miss O'Laughlin, brunette, bobbed-haired, slightly over average height, was graduated from the University of Chicago's law school, practiced in Chicago in 1921 after serving as a clerk in the Kansas House. Now she has a thriving law office at Hays, where her father, local Democratic boss, has an automobile agency. She likes to golf, violin...
Captain Courson (telling of his reluctance to discipline Maillefert even after he had refused to work with the road gang)" Jersey said, 'Captain, I done served my sentence. I don't intend to hit another damned lick.' I told him, 'No sir, your time is not made. You were sentenced here for nine years and my job is to see you do it.' Jersey said, 'I've served my time. If you don't kill me you're yellow.' I told him I must be yellow then because...
Died. Malcolm Ross McAdoo. 67, younger brother of Democrat William Gibbs McAdoo; of acute kidney trouble; in Baltimore. A political independent, he had bolted both parties, scorned the party regularity of Brother William whom he claimed he "could always lick." He was engaged in designing a sea-level ship canal across Florida...
...sent you here and I'm sending you away. ... I want to tell you mugs something. I can lick anybody in this damned outfit. If you don't think so. just start something. You'll ride the cushions home and there'll be food for you. That's more than Hoover did for you. I'm giving you guys a break. What do you say? [A minor murmur of dissent.] Then you bums can walk and I'll see you get a damned good start. I won't call in any troopers...
Once upon a time, in the Rio Arriba country, there was a fat, smart priest, Padre Martinez, who knew how to lick a dish and have it too. His religious ministrations paid him well, except in the little placitá of San José. Here he was treated as an ordinary mortal, which meant meagrely. Puzzled, he asked the San José sacristan's advice, was told that the natives had no use for his sermons, which praised San Antonio, San Francisco, the Virgin. Jesus, all of whom meant nothing to them. Why not praise their patron...