Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...People say Miss Talley acquired some half million dollars from her brief career. That may not be so good as Gene Tunney did, but at least it looks as though she knew what she wanted even if the business men of Kansas who put the cash up for her start in art did not. And now the mid-western ingenue has an opportunity to show her gratitude to a nation of music-lovers by helping to solve the country's agricultural problem. Meanwhile, explaining to magazine fans why she did not choose to sing may be a profitable side-line...
Whether or not Sophocles is responsible for the music is a moot point. Some say yes; some say no; others dismiss the matter with a few well chosen cuss-words. The jokes at all events are Mr.Weller's. They are of a post-Sophoclean vintage, and considerably above the average...
...there was nothing mystifying about his "I-do-not-choose" statement. His reason for refusing to say specifically that he would refuse the nomination if it came to him, was because "it would not be in accordance with my conception of the requirements of the Presidential office." His determination was to prevent his nomination and to this end he sent his secretary Everett Sanders-"a man of great ability and discretion"-to Kansas City to divert convention votes for him. Wrote Mr. Coolidge (Editor Ray Long of Cosmopolitan italicized it) : "Had I not done so, I am told, I should...
When U. S. officials dine out, they do so by their titles, not their names. Thus, invitations and dinner cards say: "The Secretary of State and Mrs. Stimson," or the Chief of Staff and Mrs. Summerall." This formula appears truly remarkable when applied, down the line, to "the Chief of the Oil, Fat and Wax Division of the Department of Agriculture, & Mrs. Jones...
Every day in Manhattan hundreds of Interborough Rapid Transit subways charge through the warm odorous gloom underneath the streets. Uptown they soar to daylight on elevated tracks, downtown they dip beneath the east river to Brooklyn. I. R. T. advertisements say that 1,000,000 people ride them daily. Each ride costs a nickel. I. R. T. potentates have long claimed that the nickel fare is not enough to meet expenses...