Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town's cemetery in 1878, it is popularly supposed that several collections of bones still lie under Boot Hill sod. On this traditional spot the "Last Roundup" laid the cornerstone of a new city hall. Then a statue was unveiled of a cowboy, appropriately drawing his six-shooter, said the inscription: "On the ashes of my campfire this city is built." The figure was carved by O. H. Simpson, onetime pioneer dentist...
President Lowell replied to President Angell with a gravity that almost became emotional. He told his visitor to hold high the Yale-Harvard brand. Said he: "I am a great admirer of Yale. . . . Together, Yale and Harvard are four times as strong as either one is alone. ... I am an older man than you. I shall be gone long before you. I earnestly hope that whatever you plan may come to fruition. When I am gone, any improvements which you make I know will benefit no less the institution where I was nurtured...
Last week the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children heaped bitter denunciation on the pragmatic Harvard Athletic Association. Said the Society: "We will make a quiet appeal to the . . . Association to bring this practice to an end. ... If police arrested the boys they would not be locked in cells. Children have certain rights which older people do not have...
...insulted me!" said...
...Said Slapped Swaffer: "I was surprised at my own calmness. ... I called the headwaiter and said, 'Throw this woman out.' " Said Slapper Foster: "I smacked him wholeheartedly on behalf of America. The dining room was crowded and I introduced myself by saying: 'You deliberately insulted me and I'm going to insult you in the only...