Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover equivocating over water power and Muscle Shoals (see Republicans). He extricated himself from the position on immigration into which he felt Nominee Hoover had tried to place him. He said: "In Tennessee, the Republican candidate said, 'I do not favor an increase immigration.' Why does he say that? . . . I do not favor any letdown [of alien restrictions] at all. ... It smacks a little too much of the old-time legal practice that they used to tell about, when the lawyer wanted to get the witness in bad by saying: 'When did you stop beating 'your wife...
...say to the American workingman that the Democratic party will not do a single thing that will take from his weekly pay envelope a 5-cent piece. To the American farmer I say that the Democratic party will do everything in its power to put back into his pocket all that belongs there. And we further say that nothing will be done that will embarrass or interfere in any way with the legitimate progress of business?big or small...
...more Cabinet ministers. The sow appertains to His Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, rubicund, jovial and a smart vote getter (see col. 3). The prize litter was called by scurrilous correspondents "Jix's Pride." That is to say, the squealing piglets belong to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home affairs, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, tall, pompous, correct, and usually frock-coated; but by no means heedless of the ballot pulling power of pigs. Mr. Churchill's piggery is at Westerham; and Sir William...
...suffering to anyone in Ireland and hope that some way will be found whereby no vindictive action will be taken against the suspected and misguided men who might have considered that their visit has any political significance." Thereafter Princess Mary & husband were unmolested in Ireland. But no observer could say that British royalty had received a cordial greeting...
...Italian press," cried II Capo, "is the freest in the whole world! . . . For instance, anyone of your papers may say that as a violin player I am a very mediocre amateur...