Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...futile impertinence the current issue hasn't even a competitor. There seems to be such an effluvium of decomposition about its pages as to recommend it to the amateurs of the macabre as well as to connoisseurs of the preposterous, and, critically speaking, from cover to cover of the present issue there is scarcely a contribution which it would be possible to libel. The best prose reading we found was the Wetzel advertisement...
...Hays has had much practice in cases involving civil liberties and he is at present the national, director of American Civil Liberties Union, an or ganisation which attempts to protect and further the civil rights and liberties of citizens throughout the country...
...these things as they may entertainment quite up to the standard of past Pudding ventures is in the present offering. The jokes are above average, the music is easily normal, and if the dancing is thoroughly awkward, why just remember that you can't have everything...
...State Department went into a stew. Statesman Stimson hemmed, hawed, temporized. President Hoover asked the Vice President and the Ganns to dinner at the White House and escorted Mrs. Gann into the state dining room himself, with Mr. Gann bringing up the rear. But this meant nothing because present were no foreign diplomats' wives to point the issue of precedence. The question of a seat for Mrs. Gann-and Mr. Gann-was all-balled-up. Washington society buzzed like a happy beehive...
Officials. By no means all officials are good performers. The unofficial stage managers quickly pick their favorites and offer them all the best engagements. Of the present Cabinet, Messrs. Stimson, Mellon, Adams, Lament and Mitchell are booked in advance. Only a few Senators and their wives hold the steady interest of Washington Society. Among these are Senators Bingham, Couzens, Edge, Hale, Johnson, Moses, Phipps, Shipstead, Wagner, Tydings. Senator Borah still moves at the edge of this group, an old lion whose mane and roaring once petrified and enchanted but are now too familiar to impress...