Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nebraska read a speech nominating its Governor, Charles W. Bryan, "brother of famous Bryan." William J. was given good mention, but the speech was not inspiring. Afterwards Nebraska, followed by Georgia, Oregon, Montana, paraded...
...differences between International Law and Parliamentary Law are subtle, refined and numerous. Filibustering, for example, is possible under either, but the International code is more restricting. Similarly International Law frowns upon the use of poison gas, but Parliamentary Law makes no mention...
...scene is laid in Boston, which Mr. Henry describes as a place with "an air genteel of respectability, which makes you understand that worldly wealth must not be discussed in public, and that on no account must you mention castor oil in the presence of ladies." It purports to be the diary of a middle-aged ex-professor in a boys' school who on the death of his uncle becomes automatically possessed of the latter's Boston house and cheerful $20,000 income, and on his own account, of an engaging ability to play around with flappers...
...only is this matter of the highest significance to those possessing old paintings; many of the examples of what we call modern art have proved shockingly impermanent. Sargent's Madame X and Renoir's Madame Charpentier, to mention only two of the paintings in the Metropolitan (Manhattan), are badly cracked and peeling. Professor Forbes has suggested that "perhaps a time will come when all artists may be able to obtain certified paints the quality of which has been passed on by a commission; ... if the canvases, pigments and varnishes bought by artists are not good, their pictures will...
...himself on record as favoring obedience to the law; but he did demand that the Volstead Act and the 18th Amendment should be repealed as infractions of freedom and causes of immorality. A thorough search of a file of The Monitor failed to disclose that that paper made any mention of the speech on the following day. On the second day, a little three-inch article appeared, on the fourth page of The Monitor, saying that a Methodist had challenged Dr. Butler to present his views before the Methodist General Conference, and added that Dr. Butler had been "quoted...