Word: likes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then the battle was disconcerted again. An observer (the Hearst press) noticed what looked like a spy within the Republican lines. The observer told Chief of Staff Harrison, chief hurler of Democratic sarcasm grenades. To the breast-works leapt Harrison and shouted that Brigadier Bingham, the Republican's most air-conscious hero and a superb college professor, had harbored in his tent one Charles L. Eyanson, assistant to the chieftain of the Manufacturers' Association in Brigadier Bingham's home domain of Connecticut; that this Eyanson had received federal pay as Bingham's assistant, what time...
...Buffalo" had exclaimed: "I think it is so appropriate to have Girl Scouts associated with an exhibition of antique furniture." The antiques - $2,000,000 worth of them including Gilbert Stuart paintings, Queen Anne chairs, a Chippendale clock, a Goddard block front desk - had been lent by people like Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. Francis Patrick Garvan, Henry F. du Pont, Walter Jennings. Admissions were charged for the benefit of a $3,000,000 Girl Scout fund which is to be raised in the next five years. Mrs. Hoover brought news from Washington that the American Relief Administration...
...deduces to be manifestations of Mr. Wilson's imaginary 'infirmities' were existent. For instance: He never had 'terrible headaches.'. . . I never knew him to suffer from 'ghastly dyspepsia' or any other kind. I have known him to be bored when reading stuff like Professor Pitkin's. . . . What heartburns he suffered were for humanity and because of the attempts to thwart his ideal of world peace. . . . It is true that he had bad eyesight, but he could still envisage the horrors of war, the sufferings of humanity and the way to free...
...this point Senator Howell's revelations were interrupted and the bright torch of Prohibition passed into the rugged hand of Iowa's Smith Wildman Brookhart. Utah's lank Smoot was on the point of defending the Prohibition corps when Senator Brookhart suddenly interjected: "I should like to ask the Senator from Utah if he ever saw any signs of bootleggers around any Wall Street conventions at any of the hotels here in Washington...
...descended upon London and environs. It was not a "London particular," but sufficient of a fog to make Philip Snowden, the Crippled Chancellor, hero of the pan-European money-squabble at The Hague (TIME, Aug. 12 to Sept. 9), look more gnome-like than ever as he stumped on his canes into No. 10 Downing St. for one of the most special Cabinet meetings in recent British history. Gnome-like also, or like a maimed goodwife from the fairy books, looked motherly Margaret ("Aunt Maggie") Bondfield, the Secretary of Labor, who had to be helped from her motor by chauffeur...