Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Regarding the demagogue on the stump, whatever may be his party, I want it distinctly understood that in the coming campaign I ask no quarter and will give none...
...love movement, and am capable of turning a few hand springs in the strict privacy of my drawing-room, an accomplishment probably not included in every prima donna repertoire. It always rouses my friends to shrieks of laughter to see me do this, but thus far I have found none of them able to follow my lead." "Wearing the knee breeches of Octavian (a boy's part in Der Rosenkavalier) as they should be worn, worried me ... I am the farthest removed from being 'mannish' that a woman possibly could be. I practiced standing and sitting...
...went to the Senate and was expected to meet stubborn opposition from the "small Navy" men. Instead, the clerk read the bill's title, the Chair asked if there was any objection. There was none. The bill was passed...
...however, be said that none of these four denominations is militaristic. If the armor of Mars is black, and if the wings of the Angel of Peace are white, it can be said that the words of Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists are gray. Thus they record progress since the days, 800 years ago, when Saint Thomas a Becket was continually calling upon Pope Alexander III to unsheathe the sword of St. Peter...
What could disprove the notion of the Shenandoah being a fair-weather craft more happily than this? A moonless night, a heavy thunderstorm, two sessions of heavy fog?none of these seemed to have bothered the ship very much. The difficulty in landing "light" will certainly disappear when the ballast recovery apparatus has been attached to every engine...