Word: quids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan and Godsey of Dayton having withdrawn from the case (the latter cowering before public opinion), there sat with Lawyer Darrow and Teacher Scopes in the courtroom only plump, foppish Lawyer Malone of Manhattan and Judge Neal of Knoxville, Tenn. Fumbling his soiled lavender galluses, slowly masticating a quid of tobacco, Darrow squinted across at Lawyer Bryan, rather voluptuous in a black mohair suit, surrounded by assistant counsel...
...five quid to a "bawber that David Kirkwood didn't shout, "Wot abaht the Red letter?" (wte your issue of Mar 16, Page 8), when he interrupted the monocled son of Brummagem Joe in Parliament. What he probably said was: "What about...
...inform you that after further consideration, His Majesty's Government are prepared not to insist upon the charge of exceeding their consular authority, laid about a year and a half ago, against the then American Consul and Vice Consul at Newcastle, and it has therefore been recalled." The quid pro quo in this agreement is apparently that the two accused men are not reappointed to Newcastle...
Representative Percy E. Quin, Democrat from Mississippi, rose in the House to speak. He placed his quid of chewing gum on the speaker's table and proceeded...
Rome. The painted Hall of Consistory. Exeunt omnes. The Pope in a seamless robe of white is left alone with Cardinals scarlet-clad. Quid vobis videtur? Thus saith the Pope: "Therefore by the authority of God Almighty, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority we nominate the Most Reverend George Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, and the Most Reverend Patrick Hayes, Archbishop of New York, Gardinals of the Holy Roman Church...