Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge and her husband-smiled when they heard how, in the 'Chicago station, John set his lips and doggedly repeated to the newspapermen: "I have nothing to say. I have nothing to say...
...Coolidge-"What did he say...
...say we [English] are ... a degenerate race suffering from disturbed nerve centres? We have come to realize that tea-drinking is definitely refreshing, exhilarating and harmless. . . . Alcohol is the most expensive drink in America today and tea the cheapest. .' . . The stimulating effects . . . will go a long way toward staying the taste for alcohol...
...Balance Wheel of British Labor," was without his usual dynamic optimism as he informed the Congress that the Railway Men's Unions, of which he is General Secretary, are now slightly dwindling in membership. "People," said Mr. Thomas indignantly, "tell the workers not to believe what their leaders say, and say that the leaders have sold them." It is Mr. Thomas who has risen from a grimy engineer's cab to a snug little mansion with flagstone paths in the garden; to playing bridge with Peers; and to enjoying an occasional audience with His Majesty, who is reported...
...swallowed without protest, the National Assembly proceeded to deadlock and then to balk when instructed by King Amanullah to pass a bill raising the marriageable age of females to 18. Occidentals may not realize that the chief distraction of many an aging Oriental is his new wife, aged say 14, or in extreme cases as low as seven. The Afghan National Assembly, however, positively declined to ratify the measure...