Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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City. Where the Kaw River empties into the Missouri and the Missouri starts an eastern sweep to get on over and join the Mississippi, is the bottom of a great basin and a natural site for human habitation. They say you could give a freight car a shove anywhere within 300 miles of where the rivers meet (except eastward) and it would coast down to the Kansas Cities. Of these there are two. a small one in Kansas, a larger one (383,100 population) across the Kaw in Missouri. They are "the gates to the Southwest," "the continent...
...privacy, these gentlemen selected several rooms apiece in various parts of the town and familiarized themselves with unobtrusive entrances and exits. Senator Smoot wanted no interruptions from avid proponents of special doctrine, especially farmer doctrine, while he is phrasing the eternal principles for which the G. O. P. will say it stands this year...
When he writes to the newspapers? When he goes to a mass meeting? When officers of his union or association say that he is or should be embattled...
...Say the A. A. P. A.'s: "In place of Federal prohibition we favor the installation, by the States, of a method of controlled and restricted distribution which will prevent the exploitation of the liquor traffic for unconscionable profits, and not only do away with prevailing speakeasies and secret drinking but prevent the reappearance of the old unregulated saloon system and the political iniquities which accompanied...
...telegrams the obscure editor wrote another ironic column: "I'll grant that he has the courage, but I also insist that he is more or less simpleminded, or he would not have permitted his head to grow to such large proportions. It may be treason for me to say so, but the truth is that Lindbergh has had more extraordinary luck than anyone in modern history...