Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Libelous phrase deleted.-ED. *Wrong. South Carolina, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Florida require but one tag. †Another such State is Louisiana...
...wholly in accord with my colleagues. Plan No. 21,182 [the Hoyt Plan] is ingenious, but I fear impracticable, in view of the interpretation put upon the 18th Amendment by the Supreme Court of the U. S., which interpretation clearly includes wines and malt liquors in the phrase 'intoxicating liquors.'" Winner Hoyt had anticipated such criticism. Like any reformer-or ironist-he had written in his plan, referring to the Supreme Court, that he was sure that body would not "take it upon itself to nullify the will of the representatives of the People...
...with their consequent naming of 'queens' and 'princesses,' lower the moral standard of communities, and tend to dangerous exaltation of feminine vanity as well as constituting a parody on very serious matters." Therefore, let there be no more beauty contests. The "parody on serious matters" phrase was merely fresh evidence of how jealously Fascist Italy guards the dignity of State pomps and ceremonies. Correspondents in Rome learned other more practical reasons for the new prohibition. After two years of competing in these strange international competitions, it has been noticed that Italy invariably loses. Any competition...
...George Eastman's brief "Who" in Who's Who in America which explains that he was once an amateur photographer, is now chairman of the board of the Eastman Kodak Co., occurs the phrase "donor of more than $50,000,000 to instns. of higher edn." Last week Mr. Eastman increased his total educational donations by $200,000, establishing, through the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, a George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford University. Said Mr. Eastman: "I am desirous of doing something that will assist Englishmen and Colonials and particularly the group destined to play an important...
...testimony to Skippy's greatness. In spite of a Plot and a Social Thesis, which Mr. Crosby has introduced because most novels have them, Skippy stays about the same. He does not get selfconscious, as proved by the fact that in 335 pages he only utters once the phrase for which he is most famed, "Always belittlin...