Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jellybean is just another name for a cookie-pusher. Members of this species may and very often do work, and could not be classed as loafers by any means. They have very exalted opinions of their ability to charm the female sex, and if you crowd them right close, they might reluctantly admit that they belong to the sheik class. As a rule they have more activity in their feet than in their heads. In fact, they are entirely too light at both ends. They exist in the South, North, East, and West, and not in the South alone...
...would like to see China blessed with so pure a judiciary that the U. S. might abandon its extraterritoriality right without jeopardizing its nationals...
...Daniel Webster was sent to the Senate from Massachusetts until he died. He was loose, drank habitually to excess, did not pay his debts, but Massachusetts had a right to send him. And one could multiply such instances a hundredfold...
...said they wanted all the votes for State Senators-the Democrats could have the rest. One of Judge Lindsey's minor assistants asked the precinct-tsar to "look after Ben out there," and paid him $25. The vote-counters counted the votes to make the answer come out right, and Judge Lindsey, among others, was elected. His opponent, one Royal R. Graham, died violently soon after, "and not of suicide," said his family. At Mrs. Graham's request the Supreme Court said none of the votes of Precinct 6 would be legally counted. That done, Judge Lindsey...
...Chicago Tribune: "Everybody speaks of it as the Outer drive. That is a good name because it is a natural one and a descriptive one. The best place names in cities are the natural ones. . . . We cite the Lake Shore drive, Broadway, the Boston Common. These names are right. They do not offend by disproportion. They come naturally to the tongue. They have character. They belong to the thing. Why strain for a better name when the Outer drive is so certain the right...