Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read the Bible like I eat fish-leave the bones and eat the flesh.-¶Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis' carping at evangelicanism) "represents a huge ocean of mud" contains "barnyard piffle" and "garage gossip." ¶ Of tolerance: "It is up to us to show the Jews what we mean by properly living our own religion, showing them that we have a better one than they...
...Finance of the Interstate Commerce Commission? And John James Tigert himself, U. S. Commissioner of Education? These and many another Rhodes Scholar are as well known as able President Aydelotte, or should be. Rhodes Scholars have distinguished themselves right and left?unless "running the country" be taken to mean the somewhat vulgar occupation of politics...
...Jans & Whalen of the Keith circuit, Laura Wilkinson of the Body obviously Beautiful, singers of blues. There is a heavy tragic skit in which Texas weeps real tears, thanks the audience with honest sobs for their applause. Intimate glimpses of her night club adventure are revealed. "Hello, Sucker, Whaddaya mean ya been overcharged, lemme see that check. Why, ya poor sap! $124, huh! Sucker, you had two tele phone calls. Don't be dumb...
...Waldorf-Astoria, continued to announce that he would be back in Manila by September. He said that President Coolidge was "a great President," that the Filipinos were the "happiest people on earth" and that though most of them undoubtedly wanted independence, they really did not understand what independence would mean...
...This does not mean that favor armed intervention, which I am thoroughly convinced is most impractical, but I believe that we must leave our warships and marines in China for a long time...