Word: norrisism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Passed the Rivers and Harbors Bill authorizing an expenditure of $70,000,000, after Senator Norris of Nebraska had broken the solemnity of debate by falling out of the clerk's chair. (Bill went to conference.)
Jean Hortense Norris, widowed Manhattan Magistrate: "I, famed for my vitality, for my vigorous interest in matrimonial felicity (TIME, June 28), last week adjusted a flagrant case of impending desertion. One Martha Rosa, 20, appeared in my court charging that one Sixto Margon, 21, Negro, steward on S. S. Cuemo...
George W. Norris, 65, Senator from Nebraska, an old-fashioned man with ruffled grey hair, is the leader of the insurgent, if any Senator can be called such, now that "Old Bob" LaFollette is dead. From the farm Mr. Norris went through teaching and the law to Congress. In 1910...
He was already long past the age which interests life insurance companies, when his left hand brandisHed the Speaker's gavel before the House of Representatives on March 19, 1910. On that day he fought for the power which echoed from his gavel. For seven years he had told...
Prejudice! Graft! My tactics a bombshell! Prosecution frightened! My case is over! These were the jubilant cries last week of Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris, 49, unofficial Baptist Fundamentalist, of Fort Worth, Tex., who on July 17 decreed death to Dexter E. Chipps, lumber dealer, and acted as agent himself...