Word: questionably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gann, no talker in Society, heard those about him discuss the Junoesque lady in a silver lace dress seated so grandly at the right hand of the diminutive Ambassador Davila at one end of the table. This was embarrassing for Mr. Gann because the lady in question was his own wife. In the other direction, all bathed and shaved and shining in his evening clothes, beside Señor Davila, was Mrs. Gann's brother. Vice President Charles Curtis, upon being whose official hostess Mrs. Gann had long been. bent. This dinner represented the final triumph...
...dean of the diplomatic corps, went to see Secretary Stimsori about Mrs. Gann. Secretary Stimson went to see President Hoover about Mrs. Gann. Secretary Stim son saw newsgatherers about Mrs. Gann. To them he gave correspondence which showed what a Statesman he really was - correspondence which passed the whole question of Mrs. Gann's precedence back to the diplomatic corps...
...hospital, arrived in Manhattan last week James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin Jr., 28, son of the resounding Alabama Senator who professes mortally to hate and fear alcohol and the Pope of Rome. With the young Heflin was Senator Tom Connally of Texas. Obviously befuddled by the Prohibition question, Junior Heflin gabbled convivially with ship newsgatherers until Senator Connally took him to his cabin and locked him in. Upon the pier Junior Heflin announced: "I want to see Al Smith. My father's got a bug. He's all wrong about Al Smith. . . . My old man will give...
...satisfactory adaptation of the case method to Property 1. As to the course on contracts the casebook aided by an excellent treatise, and when expounded by a master, does its work well. How it would fare if unsupported by either of these props is a dubious question. Of the situation in the second and third year nothing is known but much is heard...
...comments, which is gradually taking on a much more even and less impetuous flow, the Bolshevists have maintained their control in Russia for eleven years, and bid fair to continue as many more. Whether Communism has held its own along with the Bolshevist party is a much more doubtful question, and those capitalists who had most to fear from it and were most active in their attacks against it, are already beginning to hope that by a gradual process of change Russia will slip back to capitalism and with it, the brotherhood of nations. The New Economic Policy, started...