Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to say just wherein the picture falls down, it comes so close to being truly excellent. Perhaps more than in anything else the fault is in tendency for the story to moralize, to proclaim too blatantly the some-what shopworn "I still believe in you" motif. Far be it from this reviewer to simply that that is not a good and even often necessary chord, but nevertheless it has always had the effect on him of inducing a slight shudder when it is blared forth upon the brasses...
Skeptics shrugged when Director E. S. Archibald of the Dominion Experimental Farm ebullated at Montreal: "I can say without any hesitation, that Canada is now the best country for farming in the world! All our fisheries plus our mines and forests yielded less, last year, than the $1,167,000,000 produce of Canadian farms...
...week that he will now have time to visit Berlin in connection with the momentous work of revising the Dawes Plan (TIME, Sept. 24, et seq.). When asked if he would also visit Washington to seek revision of the French debt, Lion Poincaré growled irritably but did not say no. French observers hailed suave, expert, experienced Senator Cheron as just the man to wangle the budget through Parliament by Christmas in the absence of his chief...
...raised his glass, on high to say...
...buried the hatchet? One party is Fred G. Bonfils, sometime gambler, fighter, and more recently philanthropist, who is proud to say that his grandfather (surnamed Buonfiglio) was a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte. When the West was a gold brick, Mr. Bonfils bounced about until he profited $800,000 in the Little Louisiana Lottery. Then he ran into a garrulous bartender named H. H. Tammen and they bought a newspaper, the Denver Post, with which they fattened the gambler's wad and extended the bartender's ingenuity. They had a circus, too (Sells-Floto). But, for raw meat...