Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...messenger chosen in each state to carry the ballots to Congress is generally one of the Electors, although sometimes a prominent politician gets the job. He is paid 25 cents a mile traveling expenses by the Federal Government -a neat sum, especially for him who comes from the Pacific Coast...
When, in 1806, the Holy Roman Empire, after more than 800 reeling years, was jostled into its last bloody gutter by a Corsican elbow, when Virtue raged unchecked in England and that shrewd but disappointed politician, George III, was declared hopelessly insane, certain print shops in London began to sell miniature theatres. With them they sold engraved cards of scenes and characters; the price-a penny plain and tuppence colored. The game of playing with these toys became a fad more prevalent even than Virtue, and as fevered as the undone George. Recently, in the bookshop of S. Nott...
...possibility of the Sterling Bill's being passed is another matter. No politician wants to incur the terrible wrath of the press, a wrath already rising at the suggestion that second class mail rates be somewhat increased. The wrath of this or that great city daily may be endured; but to provoke the almost universal enmity of the press, both urban and rustic, would be all but suicidal. The press wieldeth a mighty club. Congress may not lightly tread heavily upon its toes...
...Stone of the University of West Virginia has written in the Educational Review that knowledge has increased to the point where too much is expected of the present generation of college men and women. He says: "The flunker, the athlete, the pampered only son, the tea hound, the college politician . . . existed when we were young and those who went to college were so few as to be 'select'." He argues that the colleges were objects of criticism in his day, but they nevertheless turned out some pretty good results...
...late, Benito has been a milk-and-water politician, giving the minimum of offense and overlooking much abuse. In the Senate, however, he became himself, fire-eating, bellicose, pugnacious. He had come to obtain a vote of confidence and bluntly he told the Senators: "If you have confidence in me, say so; if you have not, vote against me and I will...