Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nominate and if the nation should elect Mr. Reed as President, there would be few dull moments during his administration. Instead of the unquotable voice of the present White House spokesman, tart epigrams would come bounding out the White House door. "President" Reed would undoubtedly go before Congress in person, equipped with messages which some might call "shocking." Whether Reedability would redound to the good of the country is, of course, a matter of opinion...
Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon and Rperesentative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa, co-authors of "the best advertised piece of literature in modern times," were obliged to stand, in person, while impersonators chanted "The Corn Belt Is Getting On Its Ear." A verse: Don't forget it's getting late...
...veto message was not a masterpiece of style, organization or logic. It was repetitious. But it was also devastating. Many a disinterested person who was obliged to read it admitted he was ready to quit midway and concede the debate to the President. There was, however, one sharp aphorism reminiscent of the Coolidge first known to fame. It was: "Government price fixing, once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared...
...CHARLES, KING OF ENGLAND-John Drinkwater-Doran ($5). Mr. Drinkwater, entirely suave in pen and person, has chosen very happily to write about Charles II. Posterity, with invincible gaucherie, remembers Charles as "The Merry Monarch," as the popularizer of a certain breed of spaniel, and as the only man or monarch to whom Miss Eleanor Gwyn* was ever faithful. Mr. Drinkwater does not forget the spaniels nor Nell Gwyn, but he remembers Mr. Charles...
Quacks. "The vampires and pirates of quackery are bleeding the people. They are capitalizing the lack of discrimination of the average simple person as to what constitutes a qualified practitioner, and in many cases their activities prove fatal."?Dr. Arthur Thomas McCormack, Louisville...