Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vacation, the President several times repeated that he would call no special session of the Senate or House of Representatives. But, back in Washington, it behooved him last week to let the politicians come and tell him he was right...
...billiard parlors as they did on girls at parties or buggy riding. While Daniel Richard Crissinger was building up a big practice, including the counselorship of the Marion Steam Shovel Co.,* and becoming president of the National City Bank & Trust Co. of Marion, Warren Harding was moving right on up in politics. He became a U. S. Senator and then, one summer, sat on his front porch and waited for his friends to make him President of the United States...
Crown. Most significant is the suggested legislation concerning the succession to the throne. It is reported that King Alfonso has agreed to empower the National Council (in other words Primo de Rivera) with the right to pick any member of the royal family as heir to the throne...
School, Mount Holly, N. J. When Teacher Caroline Carroll stood up smartly with an American flag, all the other pupils raised their right hands in the trig salute that they had been taught to use. Not so William Albertson, who merely waggled one grimy paw. Said Teacher Carroll: "William Albertson, you salute that flag!" Smirked William Albertson: "Aw, I did salute it, didn't I, good enough?" Dullards sniggered, smart alecks frowned, Teacher Carroll made her face look stern. "You come with me, William Albertson, right now," said she. Out in the hall she seized William Albertson, shook...
...orchestra played outside the house of a twelve-year-old elephant named Poetre, she listened with polite and melancholy attention. As the wild oboes wailed, she bent her huge head in self-conscious sorrow. When the brass horns shouted, she flapped the floor with a map of Africa, her right ear. For violins and cellos, ehe rolled her small bright eye. Then, when the crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone's. In wet clothes...