Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drew out a green silk handkerchief and waved it. She let them put a Hawaiian lei around her neck. Her secretary suggested that she hold the New York delegation's state standard. It was passed up to the bo:: and she held it, beaming. Newsgatherers implored her to say something and with tears on her plump cheeks she said: "This is the happiest moment of my life, to find that others appreciate the Governor as I do." They tried to put a baby donkey into her arms. "Send it up to Albany," she said, laughing and crying...
...newsgatherers drew Mrs. Smith out to tell about her husband's telephoning her from Albany. "He didn't say much," she said. "I just asked him about the family and he told me they were all well, and then he asked me how we were all feeling. I just told him that we all felt fine. Yes, indeed, it was nice to talk to him again...
...have to kiss in the dark. You see, we haven't revoked the segregation law." "There was one piece of sardonic humor in the events at the Republican Convention at Kansas City. I refer to that plank in the Republican platform in which they say, 'We stand for honesty in Government.' Now, why bring that up?" "Senator Borah wants to refund the wages of sin, but how in hell does Borah know they ain't gonna steal no more?" "Hays improved on Patrick Henry. He strikes an attitude, with hand on heart and says, 'Give...
...Kate Merrick, "Queen of London Night Club Keepers," has been sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Therefore the young Lord blushed and visibly perspired when the scathing Earl of Birkenhead remarked: "We hear of Peers denouncing drinking in the slums. But they seldom say a word about the evil caused by night clubs ... in connection with which the mother-in-law of two members of Your Lordship's House recently incurred the public censure of the courts" (TIME, July...
...attempt to establish a Ministry on the basis of a program approved beforehand by the various parties." He continued that, although it seemed "psychologically scarcely possible" for Herr Muller to forge a majority pledged to support him, he might carry on with a "Cabinet of Personages," that is to say, a government composed of distinguished party men whose parties would probably support them but would not be pledged to do so? as is the usual custom. Concluding with wily logic, Dr. Gustav Stresemann observed that, "This Cabinet formation coincides with the spirit of the German Constitution, which recognizes only...