Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation has ever been afflicted."* At Denver it was "the snoopers and spies . . . like the lice of Egypt"-an anti-Prohibition speech (Denver being wet). The League of Nations took a lashing, too, as the Angel of Vengeance passed on to Albuquerque. Here he said: "I expect someone to say that 'Reed is merely destructive; he wants to destroy existing conditions.' Of course! Every time you want to change anything you must alter or destroy existing conditions." Then he set up the Republican "crooks, grafters and scoundrels" again and once more flailed them down. Large audiences attend...
...trite to say that the world is so small that one can scarcely move in it without stepping on some one's toes; bat the statement becomes increasingly true in these days, and, after all, the truth is never trite. It appears that even so innocuous a phrase as "American legation" jars on the ears of much of the Western Hemisphere, and that the diplomats at Washington, anxious not to displease, have in recent time substituted for it such an expression as "the United States legation...
...will go so far as to say that the Hamlet myth is not even a particularly Danish myth." So hazarded, last week, at Copenhagen, Dr. Setala, Finnish Minister to Denmark, onetime professor of philology at the University of Helsingfors, Finnish capital...
...connection with the publication of her "fearless," "astounding" and rather trite book, The Right to Be Happy. The Student Forum invited Mrs. Russell to lecture on "Companionate Marriages" and looked forward to hearing a "vital and significant message"-until it learned the kind of thing Mrs. Russell would probably say, as quoted above...
...fields, the cowboys are in dude ranches or vaudeville. What does Mr. Average Citizen do to relieve his tension? He goes exploring in his automobile, knowing perfectly well that he will see familiar filling stations, hot dogs, kewpie dolls, cigaret signboards, and a thousand explor ers who will say with him: "Well, the traffic sure is heavy" Perhaps he stalks into a drugstore bar on the way home, puts his foot on the rail, demands a double-chocolate-marshmallow-pecan sundae and a chicken-liver sandwich. Before supper he reads the fortnightly crime ofthe "crime of the century...