Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become a barber and so permitted myself constant association with this dæmon of mine did not California have a license law requiring four years of study of shaving and men's haircutting (neither of which interest me). Lest you think I am a degenerate let me say that I am married, have two children, am 32 years of age, an army veteran with Croix de Guerre, a poet of local fame at least, and a successful businessman. My wife has never had the slightest inkling of this peculiarity-for, fortunately, I identified it early. And furthermore...
Aged 63, farm-born, business-bred (International Harvester for 40 years), Chairman Legge had nothing to say in advance of his new work. "Results, not words," his friends said...
...speech was as notable for what it did not say as for what it said. No actual date was given for the calling of another naval reductions conference. There was no mention of Prime Minister MacDonald's proposed visit to Washington. Government operation of the coal mines was barely hinted. The only unexpected parts were the paragraphs referring to the appointment of a liquor commission, a sop to such ultra-dry Laborites as Philip Snowden; and a proposed commission to investigate proportional representation in elections, a peace offering to the Liberals...
...Say "tabloid" to Italian-speaking Easterners and they think of the conservative Corriere d'America (circulation, 56,369), a terse, thoroughgoing little Manhattan daily founded in 1922 to print news, not girl and horror pictures...
...delivered with them this speech: "Now . . . you belong here and nobody can run over you. If anybody makes trouble for you, stand right up to him and tell him not to forget who you are. . . . The new nationalities are according to jobs. Some of these days nobody will ever say a man is a Swiss or a Slav or anything like that; they will say he is a plumber or a baker or a machinist, and what he does for a living will be his nationality and his destiny...