Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exhibit. Ancient is the Republican trick of bringing into the Senate Chamber during a tariff war an assortment of cheap imported articles to illustrate arguments on foreign cost, duty, selling price. In 1922 an elaborate display was set before the Senate when John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) Senator from Mississippi, entered the chamber in an absent-minded mood. He fondled a large cloth monkey with a red tail. He wiggled a cuckoo clock so roughly that it crashed to the floor in ruins. Last week the Senate Chamber held another similar exhibition, including toy soldiers, a violin, an umbrella...
...Baxter) and numerous others, including a cameraman's little fiancee (Dorothea Chard), who is thus far the season's most piquant and delectable brunette. The blonde so beguiles Cortez that his Castilian nobility prompts him to propose. Then she admits that she has only been scheming to make him set the others free. He is too proud to punish her, so the pair are forced to separate until the third act when he arrives in Hollywood and finds her, scorned by the cinema critics, in a more congenial mood. Mr. Tellegen is emotionally expert but, like Messrs. Faversham and Atwill...
...leaped in to mold his fate. He was convincing and precise where M. Briand had been gaseously sublime. Yes, his Government stood for early evacuation of French troops from the Rhine, but not until Germany has ratified the Young Plan, which guarantees huge cash sums to France. The date set at The Hague for evacuation? he hammered in the date, June 30, 1930? was no longer binding, in his opinion, because the unforeseen death of Dr. Strese-mann has delayed German ratification of the Plan...
...When we have industrialized the Soviet Union and set the mujiks [peasants] to driving tractors, let the honorable capitalists with their 'civilization' try to outstrip us. Then we shall see which country can be called backward and which the vanguard of human progress...
...regard Maryland as easy after what happened last year (Maryland 6, Yale 0), but never did the Elis show so clearly what a one-man team they are this year. With a lead of 13, shifty little Albie Booth sat down to rest. Maryland promptly tied the score, was set to win when the whistle blew. Yale 13, Maryland...