Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said. He was not thinking of entering the Harvard Law School. He would go into Business somewhere. But first, he said, he wanted to talk with his father. . . . Florence Trumbull, first daughter of Connecticut, was asked again last week, if she is engaged to John Coolidge. "I always say it has not been announced," said...
...There are at least ten states in which the colored vote is the deciding factor- Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, New York." So say politicians oft and anon at this period of the presidential cycle. The man who said it last week was Perry W. Howard, Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi. Mr. Howard who is a Negro (light colored) also said: "The group I represent has unfortunate ly for years, and to a large extent, followed the political fortunes of Governor Smith in New York and it is essential that this support be brought-back...
...Harry M. Blackmer (fugitive from justice) and James E. O'Neil (fugitive from justice), all of whom participated in the Continental Trading Co.'s big deal-would be made to pay penalties for evasion of taxes on Continental profits. It was "not compatible with public interest" to say how much the belated penalties would be. Treasury investigations were afoot...
...ruined in Indianapolis if clocks were put ahead one hour. Mr. Nicholson retorted that he had just been in Manhattan, which seemed to be doing well on Daylight Saving Time, and averred that the cinema industry was not going to step in, if he could help it, to say that Indianapolitans should not have an extra hour in their public parks...
...finds still all too prevalent Dr. Dewey has said: "Much work in [an ordi-nary] school consists in setting up rules by which pupils are to act of such a sort that even after pupils have acted they are not led to see the connection between the result?say the answer?and the method pursued. So far as they are concerned, the whole thing is a trick and a kind of miracle...