Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...renewed the Cat Creek contract last year without getting the Department of Justice's opinion. Last week Attorney General Sargent advised Secretary of the Interior West that, in view of the secret option, the Cat Creek contract was illegal, void. This time, Dr. Work did not bother to say, as he said of the Salt Creek incident: "People are tired of hearing of these oil leases...
Four nights before the election, Governor Smith remembered something. "All during this campaign," he said, "I have not had an opportunity to say something that I want to say now that I am home, and that is to extend congratulations, great good wishes and heartfelt gratitude to my running mate on the ticket, Joe Robinson of Arkansas. He is a man of extraordinary ability, great capacity and a man of wonderful experience. He has used every bit of the last six weeks working night and day in the interest of the success of the Democratic ticket...
...went over to the General Motors Building to telegraph Mr. Hoover and say goodnight to Mr. Raskob. John William Davis was there, smiling. "We're used to it," said Mr. Davis. "Maybe 25 years from...
...skeleton of a growing building near the Pooles' Manhattan home. One day, out of a steel-beamed sky, the riveter crashes through the Pooles' conservatory roof. Stunned by the fall, his astonishment is increased by the proximity of Consuelo. His way of expressing his daze is to say "Geez" many times (in throaty Theatre Guild English). There is, of course, an affair and there is a little accident. When Consuelo tells her twice-divorced mother and once-divorced father of her interesting condition, Father cries "Harlot!", Mother cries "Why didn't you tell me?" Only the dowager...
...Gangster is the autobiography of a gangster adapted from a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. Beer-drinking as a baby, sneak-thieving as a schoolboy, pool-playing, loafing, robbing, killing?such things, say numerous subtitles, land young men in the jug. In spite of the monotonous effort of the script to point a moral. Director Raoul Walsh has made this rather gentle document of crook life effective by little niceties?the ward-heeler spitting in the hand, extended for a friendly shake, of the gangster who taught his son bad ways; the prisoner in the visiting room who wants...