Word: normans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Montagu Collet Norman, witty Governor of the Bank of England...
Grizzliest of the skippers was Capt. Norman Ross, 58, of the Zodiac. As a child he began to fish off Gloucester, Mass., and still prefers to be known as a fisherman rather than a racing skipper. He owns one of the four schooners in Gloucester that scorn to use motor power...
Committeeman Norman E. Mack of New York stirred things up by declaring that Governor Smith stood for State-determinism, against prohibition, for temperance. Governor Smith curtly confirmed this "news." When the Resolutions Committee began its work none could guess how the drink plank would be phrased or by whom. Senators Pittman of Nevada and King of Utah, Drys both, were for conciliation through vagueness. Boss Brennan of Illinois said: "No sensible Democrat ought to worry. . . . Only one person in 25,000 thinks and only one in 50,000 reads the party platform...
...reporter from the militantly wet New York World called on Governor Smith and popped the following question: "In view of the question raised at Houston about Norman E. Mack's statement [see p. 9], the World wishes to know: Have you changed your belief that there should be amendment of the present Prohibition provisions...
...date of the Norman invasion or the French irregular verbs fixed in his mind when a bare-kneed cutie, all scented up with Black Narcissus, is sitting just across the aisle? No one without the sales resistance of a Galahad...