Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effrontery to speak insultingly of a man of whom General John J. Pershing recently said: "No man was ever faced with a greater problem than our War Secretary in 1917. . . . He met the situation with great courage, with great intelligence. ... I think I may say that no Secretary of War in American history ever realized the relationship which should exist between the Secretary of War and the Commanding General so completely and understandingly. Orders were given in plain language when I set out and I think Mr. Baker will bear me out that those orders were never changed and never...
...being elegant gentlemen attired in long silk stockings just like those women wear today, were much annoyed by the gadflies biting their legs. Hence they adjourned quickly. Well, now I never heard that Thomas Jefferson was a jokester, but if he wrote that letter seriously, all I have to say is 'God bless the gadflies.'?Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt...
...many thousand drinks of whiskey were thus won by Alfred Griffith, Australian immigrant, is not recorded. Several thousand too many, certainly. He was young Griffo, some say the fastest, cleverest fisticuffer ever known. He never won a championship. He trained for prize fights by walking with increasing unsteadiness from the clean white handkerchief to the beer-slopped...
...last time. The American Legion saluted her. So did the Governors of the 48 states; there were letters from them all, a farewell appreciation for "a lifetime of self-sacrificing service." Mme. Schumann-Heink cried, kissed Walter Damrosch who had presented them, and made a speech: "Now I say goodbye, but that does not mean that I shall become useless. I hope still to continue to serve my country. Heretofore I have given my heart to the soldier boys, but now I must look after the girls-if they behave themselves and don't smoke or powder their noses...
...hypocritical and shallow," stated Mae Murray, gorgeous blond Paramount movie star, in an interview last night with a CRIMSON reporter, after having just answered her curtain calls at the Metropolitan. "In order that this may not sound contradictory," she continued, "when one considers my several marriages, I can only say that I have always held matrimony sacred, and consider it indispensable to ultimate happiness in the intimate association of man and woman. However, marriage is not always successful, and I maintain that it is only right that two discordant personalities be allowed to separate and pursue their own course...