Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Topeka, Candidate Reed reverted to Lawyer Reed when local lawyers told him how "thrilled" they had been by the $100,000 fee he was reported to have gotten for defending Henry Ford in the Sapiro libel case. "All I want to say about that case," replied Lawyer Reed, "is that, whatever the amount of that fee, it was not big enough to pay me for a client lying down after I had won my case...
...Pineapples" are convenient, effective and easy to obtain in Chicago, where bomb-making has almost the status of an industry. "Our people are being terrorized," said President Frank Joseph Loesch of the Chicago Crime Commission last week. Police Chief Hughes could only say, "I'm helpless. . . . If I had 3,000 more policemen we could stop those bombers...
Last week newspapers paid a debt to crime. It is one of their greatest news assets but seldom do editors have a chance to say nice things about men who have committed crimes...
...Voltaire will say that the Klan was a movement of child-minded men whose age prevented them from sharing otherwise in the romantic spirit of the time and who dressed themselves up with regalia, symbols and gibberish to play solemnly at an exciting game. After a while, the game got boring...
...father entrusts his business to the direction of a son whom he has trained to follow in his footsteps. A rich, notorious, client places a-to say the least-large order. Father and Son live in the same neighborhood, on friendly terms. Is it likely that Father, however inactive in the business, will remain totally ignorant of the Son's large order during several weeks when Son is executing...