Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank Smith would rather die than suffer this stigma. The Senate has been his life ambition, and to say that he shall be disqualified because of an act that was not illegal, has never been illegal and is not illegal today, is incomprehensible...
...Casting an eye at Mr. Brophy, whom he had easily defeated for President, he said: "I could tell of slimy things." Radicals cowered. They continued to cower until, two days later, Radical Hapgood rose to criticize. Mr. Lewis pounded the desk, eyes flashing. He smelled a fight. "If you say another word," said he, "you'll have to be ejected" (on the grounds that he was not entitled to a seat). The young man hit a sergeant-at-arms on the left shoulder, but no one came to his rescue. At the desk Mr. Lewis sagged. There...
...say with John L. Lewis...
...insist on my having hobbies, I shall reiterate two. I like to put on long, black silk trousers and listen to my husband play the violin. He does it beautifully. Then I like to sit in the gallery and listen to debates in Congress, particularly in the Senate. Some say that I could be elected Senator from Ohio, if I said the word. However, I am too busy now caring for Paulina to think of stump speaking...
...Calvin Coolidge: "Some say that if I had not married Calvin Coolidge, I would have become the ideal dean of a women's college. But the wives of Presidents, as well as deans, must have tact. That, my friends tell one another, is my most important characteristic. Then too, as everyone knows, I love flowers, am an able gardener, play the piano, keep an accurate baseball score, knit. An enterprising researcher once announced that I am the first co-ed to be the First Lady of the Land...