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...greatest joy is three meals a day, So when Marshall invited the pages to dine Not one of the boys was heard to decline. . . . This fine innovation was given each year, As long as Tom Marshall remained with us here, And then came Coolidge, so silent, yet plain. Quoth he: "Lads must eat, so let's choose It again." . . . So thus the tradition established in fact Decreed a Vice President thereafter shall act. Now when Dawes, with his pipe with its inverted flue Appeared on the scene, which to him seemed quite new And was told of the dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pages' Dinner | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...Quoth the Conference: "The position and mutual relations of the group of self-governing communities composed of Great Britain and the Dominions may be readily defined. They are autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status and in no way subordinate one to the other in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Beginning of Secession? | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...Quoth Arkansas' quipsome Caraway: "Those men don't know a horse from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Relief, Yet Again | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Quoth the Mahatma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: When To Kill | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...quickest, sharpest G. 0. P. answer to Nominee Smith's farmstorming tour was emitted by Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, official Hooverizer of the East. Quoth he: "The ploughboy of the Eastern world goes West in a $1,000,000 special train to carry relief to the harassed farmers of that section. His remedy consists of a plea to give him a chance. His promise consists in a pledge to appoint a commission to tell him what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senators | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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