Word: norrisism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bread. A soggy, tasteless adaptation of the novel by Charles G. Norris, leavened only by an improvement in the acting of Mae Busch. Mr. Norris, to encourage home-life and the patter of tiny feet, drew a penny-scrimping stenographer to whom marriage was bliss at first, then mere unbearable...
A recommendation that State Bar Associations work for the passage of the Norris resolution to amend the Constitution so that Congress would meet the first Monday in January and the President and Vice President be inaugurated the third Monday of that month.
After a lusty wrangle, Jean Borotra, the oldest French boy, subdued Rene LaCoste, pulled out the men's singles plum. "Vinnie" Richards, feeling better, joined with Francis T. Hunter to sit on R. Norris Williams and Watson M. Washburn (Harvard graduates), until they cried "Down" in the doubles.
Two-gun Norris, also distressed by the failure of his frontal attack, attempted a feint. He wrote a personal letter to Heaton, urging him, in effect, to leave the Episcopal Church and become a Baptist.
At this point entered the Rev. J. Frank Norris-"Two-gun Norris who gets his man," "Norris, the Texas bear-cat," the most Fundamental in the most Fundamental of all Baptist communities. He is the publisher of The Searchlight, a paper with scare headlines and such "leads" as: "Judas Iscariot...