Word: norrisism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kathleen Norris presided, Madame Schumann-Heink sang, Maud Wood Park spoke and the audience gave a tremendous ovation to Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, who appeared with her husband. She got up in front of the microphone, in pink, saying:
Arthur Train's book is The Blind Goddess (Scribner's). Kathleen Norris has written this time about English folk, in The Black Flemings (Doubleday, Page). Archibald Marshall collaborated with H. A. Vachell on Mote House Mystery (Dodd, Mead). Patricia Wentworth's latest is The Dower House Mystery (Small, Maynard).
A second amendment was proposed by Senator Norris of Nebraska. He charged that the President had exerted pressure on the Tariff Commissioners; that in the case of David J. Lewis, who was appointed from Maryland, President Coolidge had demanded his resignation in advance so as to be able to oust...
By vote of 38 to 30 Senator Norris got inserted in the resolution a sentence ordering: "The committee shall also investigate the appointments of members of said commission and report to the Senate whether any attempt has been made to influence the official action of members of said commission by...
By this time the resolution had become a far more dangerous thing to the Republicans than the original resolution to which Senator Smoot had agreed. But the temper of the Senate was apparent from the votes on the King and the Norris amendments, and the Republicans allowed the resolution to...