Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sporting proposition. The object of the supporting side is to find a strategic error in the vocal armor of the filibusterers and obtain the floor to bring the measure to a vote. That happened several years ago to Senator LaFollette, who, after talking 18 hours, lost the floor and saw the bill passed in five minutes...
...devastation of northern France, which now seems to be somewhat forgotten, is still a terrible fact. When I last saw the devastated area I was astonished at the amount of reconstruction already completed, but there still remains great areas in ruins. As it is, France has done seven times as much work in the reconstruction as Germany, the aggressor. France has been obliged to borrow enormous sums of money to carry on this work and at the same time pay pensions to the wounded soldiers and their families. To pay the interest and principal on these debts a huge burden...
...more insistent. To all with but two exceptions, as I recall it, his answer was firm and impartial, "No, guy; these seats are taken (Since the two exceptions were bald headed, they had "Sir" substituted for "guy"). After Professor Rand had got well underway, the youth arose, gazed about, saw his friends had not arrived, sighed heavily, and beckoned with boredom to two fair maids who had just come in. Now it might seem a little rough on those who had arrived early and were rejected, but who am I to complain? Instead of a professor a charming young damsel...
...surest test of good parody is this; is it funny to the reader who never saw the original? Readers of the Lampoon's "Town and Country" number will be able to laugh even though they never subscribed to "Town and Country". The parody itself, plus a small injection of imagination, is enough to reconstruct that magazine in all its glory. No doubt the real "Town and Country" will be much in demand hereabouts--no one suspected what an entertaining periodical it was, before the Lampoon et to work and brought out its virtues. Parody is not only the highest flattery...
...first period saw the puck being carried rapidly from one end of the rink to the other. The teams seemed evenly matched, and neither could gain an advantage at first, until, about a quarter of the way through the period, Smith, playing at right defense for the B. A. A., broke through the forward line, skated around the Crimson defense, and shot the first tally of the contest, on a hard, driving shot past Bigelow. Near the end of this period, Captain Owen took Beals place at center. Hammond substituting for him on the defense...