Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not need so large a sum." In Chicago, on his way to tender his respects and his resignation from the Coolidge cabinet, Dr. Work announced that there would be no campaign headquarters west of Chicago. "It won't be needed," he said. "The West is all right...
...shrewd was a dig taken at Right Honorable Members by Speaker Whitley in his last address to the House of Commons: "The duties of the Chair do not become lighter as the years pass on. With each new Parliament there are more members who wish to take an active part in the proceedings by question or in debate, and a Speaker often carries to his pillow an acute sense of loss for the speeches that were undelivered?speeches no doubt much better than those to which he has listened. [Laughter, cheers...
...player, dark-haired, quick-tempered. Frank Ball tied Guici with a 70. No one knew anything about him except that he was a cousin of John Ball, famed Britisher. Either Guici or Ball might win, of course, but the bookmakers didn't think so. And the bookmakers were right, for on the second day Guici and Ball dropped back and the favorites moved in to their expected places: Jones at the top, Hagen near the top and playing brilliantly...
...talk of his brilliant past; he wanted the reporters to get the right angle on physiology and the cloudy future, wherein lay the purpose of his endowment fund. The half million dollars was put in trust in memory of his scientist-son, Charles Francis Brush Jr., who died last year. Its income is "to finance efforts contributing toward the betterment of the human stock and toward the regulation of the increase of population, to the end that children shall be begotten only under conditions which make possible a heritage of mental and physical health, and a favorable environment...
...Hospital training school: "In older times we referred to humans as the human race, but according to this foundation we are being classed with the animals on the farm, the cow, the horse, the mule-perhaps with the alligator and the snake. . . . According to this foundation, I have no right to be born, for I am the youngest of 16 children and God bless my mother for every one of them! . . . Thank heaven that I was born! And if I do say it myself, I have not done so badly in my lifetime...