Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, "nothing ain't tickled my wrinkled old wattles so in ten year!" Old John comes from the "Coolidge Country" in Vermont and he tells me that the expression "tickling one's wattles" is used by one of the most distinguished men born in those parts. By "wattles" it seems that they mean the skinny, baggy fore part of a typical Vermonter's throat. I like the expression so well that I want to be reminded of it by having a copy of TIME'S cartoon framed and hung in my den. Your cartoonist...
...calm their anxiety. Now you think of their embarrassment when going to ask for a little food they are bruskely, insolently turned away. To substantiate the above I have in front of me a letter from my sister - one of the storms victims - which I will translate in part: "This hurricane was worse than the storm of 1899 (she writes). "We had to move to a house stronger than ours - but the wind shook the walls like a young tree. During one day and night we remained under that house -ours flew away -next day I had no place...
Newspaper advertisements covering full pages in the New York American (Hearst). One of them said (in part): "In the Tradition of Lincoln, the Republican Party Offers Herbert Hoover for President. "True to the spirit of Democracy, it turns again to a man of the people for a successor to Lincoln the railsplitter, Grant the tanner, and Garfield of the towpath - to a blacksmith's son, an Iowa orphan and country schoolboy, raised by his own merits, to a plane of distinction in more fields of usefulness, than any man the nation has ever been privileged to place...
Being explicit was a large part of the art of Professor Thomas. Example: "LIGHT GUARD PUNCH. For a party of 20 (this is sufficient for a mixed party of 20, not 20 of the Light Guard...
...chest by orders, and gradually it dawns on him that he is not appreciated. That the hero of Podunk is completely obscured at West Point! And in him, perhaps, is born the realization that he is important only as one of the Corps; that he must be a part of the team or not play at all that he must learn subordination of self to command...