Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the War it was an Englishman who said the Americans were worse than the English in the difference between spelling and pro- nunciation. "You spell it W-i-l-s-o-n and pronounce it 'House,'" he remarked...
...more interest than his Cuban mission for low-duty sugar men, the committee found his statement of clients and fees. His income, he said was close to $150,000 per year, to which the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co. contributed $25,000, the Burlington and Northern Pacific Railroads $20,000, the Baltimore & Ohio $10,000, United Fruit Co. $15,000 (to prevent a tariff on bananas), the Chesapeake & Ohio and Hocking Valley $12,000, the Cuban Embassy...
...foundling with only six weeks' formal education, a newsboy who made $3.50 selling "extras" of the Lincoln assassination, Lobbyist Carroll confided that his career as a railroad lobbyist for the Burlington began at Jefferson City, Mo. Said...
...said to her 'I'm just a child of nature. I don't know what to do in the presence of royalty.' She said to me, 'You take me around just as you'd take your wife or daughter...
...keep the Lexington dashing up and down the Pacific Coast, and her sister the Saratoga up and down the Atlantic, turning on "emergency" power every time a river ran low? Washington's Senator Wesley Livsey Jones persuaded Secretary Adams that Tacoma's situation was really growing grave. Secretary Adams said he could not let the Lexington help out unless Tacoma would promise to use only an absolutely essential minimum of the ship's energy. Senator Jones so advised Tacoma, which promised eagerly, waited for its warlike savior to appear...