Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Rosebery's flashing wit has long operated as a stimulant upon the minds of all English knights of the pen who have written about him. Two of Sir James Barrie's observations are justly famous: "The first time I ever saw Lord Rosebery was in Edinburgh when I was a student, and I flung a clod of earth at him. He was a peer; those were my politics...
...debate began to supper time when the vote was taken, the galleries of the Senate were crowded to capacity and the halls were filled with watchers eagerly hoping someone would vacate a seat to make room for them. In the executive gallery Mrs. Wilson watched intently until she saw the Court accepted...
...June in Chicago in the year 1920 saw three gentlemen struggling to become the Republican nominee for the Presidency. There were Frank O. Lowden and Leonard Wood locked in a deadly political embrace, and there was Hiram Johnson of California harrying the flanks of both with his delegations gathered through the primaries of states here and yon. On the outskirts to be sure were the friends of Senator Harding of Ohio, preparing a little coup...
Reaction. Mr. George upon hearing of Sir Alfred's resignation publicly branded him by an indirect reference to the biblical Judas, and directly charged that he had abandoned the Liberals because he saw "poor prospects for an ambitious man" in sticking to them, now that the party has lost its War preeminence...
Time was when the U. S. saw very few Rolls-Royces gliding along. In 1915 Manhattan had only 346 cars of this make, some of them ten years old already. Last year even England bought three times as many...