Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Santa Claus covers which are the curse and cross of magazines, but the little readers cry for them, and so do the Greek newsagents--so if you don't, you can take a run to the Art Museum, and pick out what you do like. You will run a long way before you find in any December magazine whatever a better idea than Hichborn has found for his full page cartoon, "The Three Wise Men." That is Punch, at Punch's best--not in technique, but in idea...
...wish to add to what Henry Flury of Washington, D. C., has to say regarding G. W. P. Hunt: long time governor of Arizona. 'Unique' indeed is a public speaker, let alone a state executive who deliberately picks his nose while on the public platform. In fact unique is no word for it. 'A great humanitarian who never signed a Death Warrant' but Commitments to the Insane Asylum instead, where ex-condemned on escaping would return on their own volition because the "grub" was so good. 'The State Prison was transformed from a place...
...majority of Arizonans will agree with Mr. Flury most heartily when he says it will be a long time before Arizona will see his equal as a democrat. In fact they hope never...
...President forwarded to the Senate, for confirmation, a long list of officers appointed during the Congressional recess. Sent separately was a name most likely to be frowned on by the Senate-Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West (see The Cabinet, "West Case"). The list, fairly certain to be approved in toto, included Utah's J. Reuben Clark, Under Secretary of State; Tennessee's H. Theodore Tate, Treasurer of the U. S.; Ohio's John W. Pole to be Comptroller of Currency; William S. Culbertson of Kansas, Ambassador to Chile; also five Ministers, a Farm Loan Board...
...been explained that Mr. Hoover longed to visit La Paz but did not like to step on Chilean soil, as would have been necessary, before paying his respects to Chile's highest officials at Santiago. The Bolivians had come to him after requesting permission from Chile to travel through what used to be Bolivia's corridor to the sea, the long-disputed Tacna-Arica district at the juncture of Bolivia, Chile & Peru...