Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, June 18, p. 22, you say that...
...say also that TIME helps solve a real problem for teachers of government. . . . I think that you are to be congratulated on the speed with which you cover political happenings, and get the account to your readers...
...Well, there's one thing about Big Bill Thompson," Chicagoans are wont to say, "and that is that he never grafted...
Entered pompously, in this traditional emergency, Sir Thomas Lonsdale Webster, Clerk of the House. Gesturing in dumb show, he pointed to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then had leave to say that His Majesty would graciously permit his Faithful Commons to choose a new Speaker...
Nervous and low-voiced, the Dean is under the stigma of having been a Menshevik, not a Bolshevik. That is to say, he once belonged to the "Smaller Group" or "Mensheviki" of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The "Larger Group" or "Bolsheviki" have long since obliterated their rivals, now constitute the Communist Party, and are the political masters of Russia. As a mere Menshevik, the Chief Justice is notably deferential to the potent Soviet Prosecutor. He, the dread Nikolai Vassilievich Krylenko, onetime Commander of the Red Army, plays both hero and villain in the Shahkta Trial...