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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Translations. "What did choose mean?" people asked. Reliable Vermonters were found who said it was a cautious colloquialism for "want." Funnyman Will Rogers and others declared it as foxy a word as an adroit politician ever selected. Columnist Heywood Broun thought it had "magnificent swank." Senator Bruce of Maryland, with Democratic irony, quoted Macbeth: "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown...
...between 1920 and 1925, though the U. S. population increased 8,500,000 in the same period; 31,000,000 acres of land went out of agricultural use in 1920-25; and at the present rate of agricultural shrinkage the time will soon come when poor crops will mean a serious food shortage...
...territory, so, and if I may for the moment, speak as a Canadian, I should like to bid her and her family a true welcome to this land where people speak the word 'welcome' from the heart and do not say 'good-by,' but 'come again,' and mean...
...surprised that New York City, which I presume you mean by "Manhattan," should want to claim as a resident, such an estimable citizen as Mr. Rowe Stewart of Philadelphia...
...When Sharkey got the solar plexus punch he grunted. Before the solar plexus blow was delivered and after the right landed on Sharkey's left leg, I was stepping in toward the men, saying: 'Watch your punches, Jack.' Then, realizing there were two Jacks, I said: 'I mean you, Dempsey.' Then Dempsey hit the solar plexus blow. Sharkey dropped his right hand and Dempsey hit, him a left...