Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rich sheep rancher, Republican Senator Warren was dubbed "the greatest shepherd since Abraham" because of his interest in a high wool tariff. His friends have now twisted this sarcastic epithet around to refer, in complimentary manner, to his legislative skill in herding bills through to passage. For the past eight years he has been chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, a post largely honorary since the House Appropriations Committee really does the hard work of framing supply bills...
...Among our sculptors who is the one that best represents today the art of the old Institut, the abominable firehouse art? Assuredly M. Moreau-Vauthier. He has perhaps had his hour. It is past...
Frank Jay Gould of Nice, France, son of the late famed U. S. Railroad Pioneer Jay Gould, was gloomy last week. He read statistics showing that his Casino de la Mediterranee, gambling establishment for which he paid more than $5,000,000, had lost $800,000 in the past five months...
...several years the plaintiff [Brother Edward] has arbitrarily and unreasonably opposed . . . well chosen plans . . . approved unanimously by other directors, who repeatedly indulged the plaintiff in many ways because of his past relationship to the business and to one of the defendants." The defendants said that merger plans had been discussed, but had not been finally completed, and did not violate an agreement which Brother Edward said was made with him last July...
...interim. Fame had come to Floyd Dell. He had written some novels that sold [Moon Calf, The Briary Bush, This Mad Ideal]. Lately he biographed Upton Sinclair, the California liberty-shouter. The past winter the innocuous father farce Little Accident, based on his book The Unmarried Father, has been a money-getter on Broadway...