Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith is as bad as some of the "Mr. Andersons" say, then I'm for hanging him. There is little doubt in my mind but Herbert Hoover will be elected: but as to the "Texas version"-well, I'm afraid Mr. Anderson's poem will have no influence...
...Wailing Wall," the last remnant of Solomon's Temple. . . . You have treated the occurrence as humorous, and, apparently greatly pleased with the term, have at least three times in a short article referred to the outraged worshippers as "ululators," and, to subject them to further contempt, say "They screeched, they snorted, they piped, they yauped...
...reporting the Massena episode (which, by the way, you placed in the department of Religion as if ritual murder really had any connection with the Jewish religion) you say: "Long after the death of Moses Jews celebrated their Passover with the death of lambs, and in the Ghettos of walled cities, there were bloody marks upon the doors...
...that Governor Smith's ability to deal with the administrative branch of our government is well proved, and his common sense will make him an effective chief executive. I like his honesty and his direct powerful way of stating things, and I do not like Hoover's reluctance to say where he stands...
...papers. Still glib and sophomoric, they love a good joke even more than most people. In fact they have attracted a circulation of some two hundred thousand through an earnest development of the anything-for-a-joke policy. Successful, they are now read not so much for what they say but for the "nasty way they say...