Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insinuated that the G. O. P. was responsible, if not for starting it, then for not stopping it. New York City's glib and artful Mayor Walker last week suggested that the Republican-run Post Office Department was deliberately lax about letting "scurrilous slanderous" matter from "fanatical bigots" pass through the mails.* The arch-Democratic New York World reprinted bits from a widely-distributed pamphlet which said...
...newly and uncomfortably garbed Assembly was summoned again, last week, put through Occidental paces and induced to pass bills of the following effect...
Though this stiff pill was swallowed without protest, the National Assembly proceeded to deadlock and then to balk when instructed by King Amanullah to pass a bill raising the marriageable age of females to 18. Occidentals may not realize that the chief distraction of many an aging Oriental is his new wife, aged say 14, or in extreme cases as low as seven. The Afghan National Assembly, however, positively declined to ratify the measure...
...days schoolmasters kept terrible watch over their students when examination days came to pass. Should a student peer too curiously at his shirt cuff, he would be summoned to the master's desk. In the old days, masters often spanked...
Evangelist William Ashley Sunday last week preached a "shortstop" sermon against Governor Smith's presidential candidacy. Theme: "Crooks, cork screwers, bootleggers, whisky politicians; they shall not pass-even to the White House." Place: Ocean Grove, N. J., Methodist seashore resort...