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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times kept locked in its professional bosom the secret of the Plymouth Gentleman's identity, nor would it hint whether his conscience was bothered by Lady Astor's visit to the Soviets, her U.S. origin, her advocacy of Prohibition or her own inimitable personality. The Conservative Executive Committee of the Sutton Division took the advertisement seriously enough to hold an emergency meeting, and pass a resolution of "unabated confidence" in their Lady of Plymouth and Virginia...
...Detroit papers, and was immediately contradicted by Alvin McCauley of the Packard Motor Car Co. and Mr. Fisher of the Fisher Finance Corp.; also the controller of the Chrysler Corp. stated that he had no knowledge of any such syndicate. It seems that the statement had its origin with the Detroit City Controller Roosevelt. However, the later editions of the paper stated that no such syndicate had been formed for the purpose of lending Detroit...
Some of my French friends in Paris have asked me why. I wonder if you would be willing to let us know the origin of this name...
When science was young it was possible for a species of goose, whose nesting place had never been found, to be regarded as a creature of marine origin, hatched from a barnacle and thus, not being "flesh," eligible for Roman Catholic dinner tables on Friday. Modern science knows that the barnacle goose reproduces itself by laying eggs in the far North, like many another bird. Ornithologists have found the nest of every bird that flies (or does not fly), with very few exceptions...
...back home!" cry was reference to Sir Oswald's origin in the House as a Conservative from Harrow, Middlesex. That he was not "back home" was demonstrated not only by the unwillingness of the Conservatives and Liberals of His Majesty's Opposition to yield him a place, but by their voting so wholeheartedly for the bill he opposed that it passed on the second reading...