Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Texas. Neutrality in Texas comes hard. At the Texas state convention last week, Governor Dan Moody declared himself "crucified" trying to mediate between his Klan friends and the friends of Candidate Smith. Some observers said they saw tears in the ordinarily cheerful Moody eyes as the red-headed young Governor, after siding with the Smith men to prevent instruction of the delegation against Smith, swung
Smart Londoners delight to chuckle over what seem to them the excruciating platitudes of U. S. President Calvin Coolidge. Last week however they saw nothing similarly humorous in the following dialogue, which took place between an Exalted Personage and one Albert Rowlands, laborer, employed by the Office of Public Works. Scene: near Hyde Park corner, on the famed bridle path called Rotten Row. Laborer Rowlands is laying a kerbstone along the edge of the Row. Exalted Personage (pulling up his mount): "What is being done here?" Laborer Rowlands (vexed at the question, and not looking up): "What...
...Russian that he, Amanullah, "is an enlightened monarch who will never tolerate the domination of Great Britain over Afghanistan." When these words were translated to His Majesty in Persian he frowned deeply and said in his reciprocal oration: "I was tremendously impressed by much of what I saw in England (TIME, March 26). . . . I am convinced of the good will of the British Empire toward Afghanistan...
...Newton, Mass., William M. Duncan, while standing in his living room suffered a fainting spell which caused him to fall upon the floor. His wife, when she entered the room and saw her prostrate husband, swooned in a corner. The elder son of William M. Duncan came into the room, saw his parents lolling in their coma, and crumpled up beside them. All three were inert upon the floor when the younger son of the Duncans sauntered in and the iad staggered to the telephone and whispered to a doctor. When the physician arrived, he found four Duncans stretched unconscious...
When they heard the horrible clatter that came from the ground floor, the schoolgirls shivered in their beds. When it continued, like the uproar that might herald the approach of some terrible invasion, they left their beds and crept to the head of the stairs. Below them, they saw a Roman scene. A lady somewhat their senior, in a nightgown, indiscreet and hilarious, bade them come down to a feast which she had made ready...