Word: recollect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...struck me lightly with the order paper," said Earl Winterton later of Mr. Simmons. "I most certainly had not provoked this enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Snowden by any allusion to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as 'an insulting dog.' I cannot recollect ever using such a term in relation to a human.* It is quite true that I have since been challenged to a duel, but I decline to say by whom...
...Rogers of the New York Times syndicate and all-wise Arthur Brisbane of the Hearst Staff, Colyumist Coolidge will be completely untrammeled in his roving assignment. "Usually Mr. Coolidge will write on something in current American life which he feels interesting. He is free to comment, criticize, moralize or recollect. Education, religion, business, Prohibition, fundamental problems of government, fishing, farming and a hundred other subjects are in his field...
...argument, with half a dozen Senators darting in and out of the fray, they have no need to glance up but identify each Senator by the sound of his voice. Appalling to some is the mere thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect in his dreams. Even in waking moments, he recalls the ponderous thunder of Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, the swift clipped words of James Paul Clarke of Arkansas "who could touch 210 a minute," the bitter snarl of Marion Butler of North Carolina...