Word: quote
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shoshone-Bannock Indians in Blackfoot, Ida. conferred tribal citizenship upon Quot-jasonah-ah ("Buffalo Horns" -better known as Clarence A. B^ottolf-sen) and Pah-zy-tse-ze-yak Kap-je-tah ("Heap Big Potato Chief"-better known as Lewis O. Barrows), the Governors of Idaho and Maine...
...quot;You know what I think of you bankers? I think you're a swell lot of guys. Some of you are afraid of your own shadow and wouldn't lend $10 on a $20 bill, and I'm looking right at. . . ." Mr. Jones stopped but eyed a fellow citizen of his native Houston. The bankers roared. "You notice I didn't say $20 gold piece," the burly Texan added. "I don't know what is ahead either but I know what is behind us. I know there's plenty of meat...
...President without specifying just how they shall be used, how can it obey his request for $4,000,000,000 to spend as he likes for re-employment? (See col. 1.) And how will NRA codes, each "the law of the land," yet none made by Congress, stand quot; the test of the doctrine of "strictly limited" delegation of legislative authority? Senator King of Utah sounded the mildest note of "Beware!" when he declared that the decision would be wholesome because it would make Congress "have due regard to Constitutional limitations." Sternest bewarist was Senator Borah who cried...
...quot;Wicked" Hearst. All these manifestations were simply the performance of a master journalist-showman run away with by his own technique. Strangely mingled in Hearst were patriotism, the sense of power and a desire to sell newspapers, with the last dominant. Hearst always loved to entertain, with his own stories, songs, guitar, clog-dancing as well as lavish parties. His newspaper formula added Money, Sex and Patriotism to the old imperial adage about Bread and Circuses. In 1896 he plumped for Bryan and free silver. After the Spanish war he discovered he had gone too far in his formulistic...
Candidly Dr. Ditmars remarks: &#quot;Abstract theorizing is not in my line. I deal with the animals themselves. . . . But I can't resist observing that much of the man-monkey relationship is based on feeble arguments. ... I think that it is the inconsistency in monkey psychology and ability that undermines his position as man's ancestor more than anything else...