Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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April was at hand and the trout-hunter's mission was much more important than might have been suspected. Because he was Lawrence Richey, erstwhile of the U. S. Secret Service, lately raised to the estate of $10,000-per-year secretary to the President of the U.S. And he was looking for places where President Hoover might enjoy "the rejoicing and gladness" of not having "to decide a blanked thing until next week," as he (Herbert Hoover) once...
...nine were sitting to complete a U.S. program for the preparatory conference on the limitation of armaments to meet in Geneva April 15. Thither Mr. Gibson will lead a U.S. delegation, hoping for much, expecting nothing...
...Much reading of the Constitution has made Mr. Borah a solemn man whom the ordinary run of jokes fails to amuse. But this time he had gripped, he thought, a Constitutional jest, the cream of which would taste sour in the mouths of the Wets. All a-chuckle, he was not hesitant in sharing it with the world. Rhode Island had raised a captious question on the 18th Amendment's ratification. Senator Borah judicially pronounced it "utterly unsound" and then continued...
...There is, however, a much stronger point against the validity of the 18th Amendment. That is the seven-year limitation as to ratification. It is clearly contrary to the Constitution. I have never understood why Root and the other lawyers who argued the case in the Supreme Court did not raise this point. . . . But it is too late now for this objection...
...York Evening Post surveyed the U.S. on the Five & Ten last week. Its sub-headlines told the story: "Plenty in Chicago"; "High Frisco Prices"; "Detroit Trusts Grow"; "New Orleans Still Wet"; "Baltimore Gets Cautious"; "Florida Doesn't Worry"; "Millennium in Boston"; "Warfare in Los Angeles"; "Albany Much Drier"; "Denver Bootleggers Scared"; "Profiteering in Cincinnati"; "Washington Dealers Careful"; [Texas] "Not Jones But Hoover"; "Deaths in St. Louis"; "Corn in Kansas City"; "Moonshine in Louisville"; "Pittsburgh Dealers Quit"; "Cleveland Undismayed"; "Rhode Island Calms Down"; "Indianapolis Unafraid"; "Atlanta Little Affected...