Word: restfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exchange their pennies, there must be something wrong with those who cannot find a metal worthy of their own coin. So they make a resolution for their own good and spend their money on a toy whistle to blow, just because everybody else has a whistle, and spend the rest of the time trying to think of tunes to play on the whistle...
...suppose that this would cost quite a lot, but perhaps the H. A. A. would pay for part of it, and I'm sure that a lot of the fellows here in the Freshman class would be glad to contribute for the rest...
...rest of the Teuton press simply bellowed SCHWEINEHUND!! at M. Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister, old, baggy-trousered, shaggy-headed, and perhaps Europe's smartest statesman...
...family house ($32.50 per month) on Massasoit Street. Believers in the Grand Manner almost wished that there was a law providing that an outgoing President and First Lady should be established, by the People they have served, in a setting of suitable richness and proportions for the rest of their days. In the present case, the President will be remembered as the taciturn little man whose Administration was accompanied by unprecedented Prosperity and wry anecdotes such as the following...
...Strike times "Jumping Jack" was one of the most popular Laborites in England and the enfant terrible of the House of Commons. Nowadays, with jobs scarce and employers holding the whip hand, Mr. Jones no longer jumps. His howlers down cried, "Keep out the Reds, but let all the rest...