Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protest of A. H. Bennell you reply: "TIME did not say all insurance salesmen were pestiferous, ..." I'm wondering why you made this needless limitation...
...true, as rumors say, that Sealyhams have the bad taste to become nauseated when riding in a car, their aristocracy may be questioned. While I am ready to admit that all dogs are good dogs and ought to be loved and cherished for their qualities, I wish to go on record as saying that Boston bulls have the virtues of cleanliness, courage and trim appearance together with unshaken fidelity and are the peers of any fashionable dog that ever eked out an unhappy existence, plastered over with long hair. The cartoonists and a few society folks may enjoy the long...
...outline at some length the Capital Building Program at Washington and . . . say "Within the so-called Triangle will then be erected seven huge Federal buildings of white marble...
...near dinner time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says, 'Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at 5, gentlemen.' 'So do I,' says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three, and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch: 'Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen? I rather think, so far as I am concerned, gentlemen, -I say, I rather think...
...Knox men say that judges and generals have usually the same shaped heads...