Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intimate friend of Miss Herrick's, unearthed a long, involved story about Miss Herrick leaving home, getting a job at a big perfumer's, going back home, popping into the friend's house at night and morning in tears. Determinedly, Mrs. Herrick told Justice Wasservogel: "Eileen said, 'Mother, I don't want you to criticize George behind his back; I would like you to criticize him to his face,' and I said, 'Eileen, I would much prefer doing that, and if George will come to my house, I will be very glad...
Hastily Justice Wasservogel said: "I don't think it will be necessary at all," worked out an agreement: 1) that Mr. Lowther would not attempt to see Miss Herrick for ten days; 2) that, after this period of abstinence, the parents would interpose no obstacle to their courtship and marriage. When defeated Mr. Herrick tried to make one last angry statement, Justice Wasservogel shut him off, pronounced the dread sentence that the fathers of daughters everywhere fear most to hear: "This man," said he, "may become your son-in-law, and you want to be on the best...
...women in Washington tried to scotch the notion that Republican women are rich and always wear orchids. Said Mrs. James R. Arneill of Denver, Republican Clubwoman, of a recent rural meeting: "There wasn't a person there who had ever seen an orchid. They had chrysanthemums, though...
...Styles Bridges resumed a national tour. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft plodded through the Midwest. Michigan's Vandenberg sawed wood, kept mum in Grand Rapids. Texas newshawks held an "Evil Old Men's" dinner in honor of John Garner. In Baltimore, Montana's Senator Wheeler said pretty things of Franklin Roosevelt. In New York City, Thomas E. Dewey polished up a GOPresidential bandwagon, prepared to start it rolling in Minneapolis...
...looks, therefore," said he, "as though we shall be able to finance our purchase from the United States without recourse to the type of borrowing that became essential [last time]. . . . Our expenditures in the United States can be controlled within the limits of our available and accruing dollar balances. For some time, if at all, it should be unnecessary to call on [Britain's] reservoir of American securities which have been mobilized [estimated at $1,100,000,000], for the traffic in them can be only one-way traffic...