Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alleged non-Governor could convene the Legislature, the legislators did not explain. Perhaps they thought Mr. Johnston would know because among his reputed misdemeanors was taking an interest in things psychic. But Mr. Johnston gave the legislators' requests not even the ghost of a serious reception. When 110 legislators assembled two weeks ago in Oklahoma City and notified him that the Legislature was in special session, he said to their committee: "Your body has a legal right to meet as citizens only and not as a branch of the legislative body. I decline and hereby refuse to receive...
...reported to have assured Rogers of enough support to gain him a seat at Washington. In announcing his action, the official is quoted as saying that Rogers has proved himself through his sense of humor to possess "an intellectual understanding of politics" which is worthy to be applied seriously to governmental matters. Obviously the proposal is of a more serious nature than merely to give Will Rogers an opportunity to express his choice or lack of it as to running for office, although it is probable that he will be more than equal to that situation...
...After I had been eliminated the party began, and should vigorously continue, the serious task of selecting another candidate from among the numbers of distinguished men available...
...days in order that enforced abstinence might prepare him at least partially for his next encounter. Again and again he went drunk to the ring; and again and again just failed to crush great champions. In 1897 he made the final botch that removed him from serious consideration in the ring. Matched against one Tommy Tracy in St. Louis, he escaped to a saloon. Hours afterward his backers found him; shoved him into a buggy; raced for the arena. A train hit the buggy, killing two. Griffo stumbled into the ring drunk, dazed. The bell rang. Griffo, fumbling a towel...
...SERIOUS COQUETTE?Love ferrets out a flirt's (Helen Hayes) heart and breaks...