Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...catch you in error. You say (TIME, Sept. 10) that New York hoodlums broke the beak of a shoebill heron. Newspapers that I have read called it a shoebill stork...
...doubt . . . if the Democratic party can make Prohibition the dominant issue and, furthermore, I do not believe the party could win on that issue even if it could make that issue dominant. I say this, notwithstanding the fact that I believe Prohibition is proving itself a failure in America just as it has proved a failure in every other country in which it has been tried...
...lack of a leader of military power. . . . This is the most solemn hour of our national life. ... I consider it necessary that we pass from a system of government by one man to a government of institutions. ... It is useless to seek an outstanding or dictatorial person. May I say there are none...
...longer the man but the exaltation of the law that must be our source of strength. ... I need not say that I should not advise legality for legality's sake, forgetful of the national needs or the real condition of the country." President Calles then indicated that he advises the legal election to Congress, without obstruction from the party in power, of representatives of all opposition factions-a thing unheard of up to now in Mexico. "My advice," he continued, "is based on my conviction that admitting into Congress representatives from reactionary groups, even from clerical reactionaries should...
...audience, generally had his mouth too full to talk. This mousy character was called Bellflower; actually he was Russel Grouse, columnist of the New York Evening Post, making his demure debut on the stage. For the antics of Columnist Grouse all critics had a pretty word to say. Walter Winchell of the New York Evening Graphic called him SourCrouse while the Actor-Journalist's wife, Alison Smith, able critic for the New York World, paid her husband the neatest compliment...