Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt that the attic room was stuffy. Dice that have felt the sweat of men's hands, cards that are grimy on the edges and sticky on the faces, fiction magazines and cigarets that have been consumed, bedclothes that have been kicked into contortions-do not litter a rose garden. One dozen men were in this attic room; they had lived there for three weeks; they needed haircuts. One night last week, eleven of them were trying to sleep; the other one played a phonograph malignantly, said he would never let them go to sleep unless they came...
...charged the U.S. with constant graft and aggrandizement in Mexico, ending by claiming that onetime (1909-13) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Henry Lane Wilson received 50,000 pesos a year from Diaz, and demanded a like sum from Madero, "to help support the American Embassy." At this, Mrs. Dawes rose (out of order) from her seat, and in a voice trembling with emotion declared: "I think we have struck the very lowest note of the week listening to charges of bribery and corruption against men not present here to defend themselves...
When Premier Baldwin rose to reply it was with that somehow pat irrelevance which makes his casual remarks so deadly. "One thing that troubles me," he said placidly, "is that such loyalty and fortitude as the 1,000,000 miners have shown every day during the strike should have been exploited by incompetent leadership.... We shall go to the pollslabby utterance is the crux. The House need not ipso facto be dissolved until 1929. Were it dissolved tomorrow, recent by-elections show that the Labor party could count substantial gains; but much may happen while Mr. Baldwin takes...
...Former Dictator Pangalos of Greece imposed a tax on bachelors which rose between age 20 and 40, and fell thereafter as the proliferous potentialities of the bachelor decreased. Bulgaria and the Irish Free State have a somewhat similar tax. A sensation was created recently in Sofia when a Turkish eunuch applied for exemption...
...rose on the Journal of Commerce to a point where Publisher Hearst could see him without difficulty. Publisher Hearst bought his executive services for the New York American, and Mr. Forbes was in a position to cheer up "People Who Think." In 1916 he founded his own magazine and in 1917 cheered up another class of people with his book Men Who Are Making America. This contained complimentary sketches of a score of business tycoons...