Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That memorable morn When Key saw our flag was still there! The song of his vision was never too hard For our fathers to sing in the past...
...Senate's debate brought strange sights. It brought an arch-Democrat, Mississippi's tart Harrison, to President Coolidge's side as leader of the fight against the time-limit. It brought the Republican Old Guard into open opposition to their outgoing party leader of the past five years. It brought Nebraska's acid, aloof Norris out in renewed denunciation, of the Old Guardsmen. Half in earnest, half in joke, he berated them for their "hard and ungrateful" attitude toward President Coolidge...
During the past several weeks Prince Barbu Stirby's chauffeur has been cashing at the Bank Generale, in Bucharest, large checks drawn against the Royal Exchequer, in virtue of His Highness' former authority as Keeper of the Privy Purse. Officials of the Bank Generale all know that the Prince has ceased to hold that office. Yet the chief teller paid the checks on sight, paid...
...face was yellowish. He looked haggard, nervous, irritable. He sounded querulous. An internal disease, which last summer he feared would kill him before he could complete his newest theory, has made him so. That disease?plus the harrying visitors who buzzed and scraped about him the past fortnight, and years of indoor, sedentary work. Dr. Einstein, like so many other Jews and scholars, takes no physical exercise...
...existence. There was hope for more humane conditions in war; there was interest in preserving the independence of the small nation. But all the treaties of civilization have not been able to outface primitive necessity. Why hope for anything better under the spire of a single morgue of past successes--and failures in the endless striving? At best the Peace Museum is a feeble hope; at worst, a jest...