Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wars since. It does not jibe somehow with your statement. Once I heard someone introduce Smedley Butler's father, the Congressman, as a Quaker, and he hastily denied it, saying, "No, no, no, I'm no Quaker I" In view of his recent action he was quite right. To be born in a Quaker county like Chester County, Pa., does not make one a Quaker any more than a mouse born in a stable is for that reason a horse. ... Smedley Butler might have been, may even become a sturdy Quaker. He is not one now. HELEN...
...short session the President repeated this performance and last week presented Mr. Tilson with a second recess appointment. Senators were vexed. Said Senator Harris of Georgia: "If he [the President] can withdraw appointments from confirmation and make recess appointments without limit, he can virtually deprive the Senate of its right to confirm or reject. It seems that an evasion of the Constitution is tantamount to an infraction...
...King had said last year in the Senate that Louis Borno was illegally elected President of Haiti. Technically, Mr. King is right; but the U. S. has been backing the Borno government...
Thoroughgoing, he and his men sounded the walls and floors for secret hiding places, uttered awful threats. Mme. Belmont-Gobert only sat passive in her sitting room. At last the captain wrenched open the right-hand door of her large black armoire (wardrobe), snorted to see it divided into small shelves incapable of holding a rabbit, banged the right-hand door shut without opening the left-hand door, strode away...
...right wing "Social Democrat...