Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth time in five years, the Senate passed Senator Norris's common-sensical resolution to amend the Constitution so that Congress, including newly-elected members, would meet on a set date (Jan. 2) each year and remain seated until its business is finished, instead of making new Congressmen wait 13 months to be seated and adjourning on March 4 every other year, as now; also, so that the President would take office Jan. 15 instead of March 4. Last week the House hemmed and hawed as usual over this attack on "lame duck" sessions and modified Senator Norris...
...procession came at last to a funeral pyre, high, mighty and well laid. Round it the hundred widows grouped themselves for a final chorus of wails and lamentations. Slowly, reverently all that remained of Monarch Sisowath was borne to the top of the pyre and there set down. In life he had been an amiable if do-nothing puppet of France. His pleasures were slumber, meditation and degustation. Fittingly and honorably he was borne away to Buddha, amid the swelling and sizzling of mercury, and the sweet stench of aromatics...
...with a zeal which will send him off on the trail of self-education. Men like Henry Adams scoffed at the idea of self-education in the nineteenth century. No wonder that so many students in this complex age turn back in distress at the magnitude of the task set before them. To many experience alone means education. To these outside activities afford this experience...
There is, to be sure, the question of a personal example set by the Chief Executive. Smith's example would be frankly wet. Mr. Coolidge's is frankly dry. In addition, there is the question of Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court. In the history of this country more than one contentious law has been thoroughly reinterpreted by a new court which has changed in membership. Should Smith, by any chance, have the opportunity to appoint five members of the Supreme Court, the Anti-Saloon League would have good cause for worry...
...even careful phrasing is soon garbled by the inferential methods of headline writers. By spreading thin the butter on their first loaf the Governing Board of the Union has rationalized the honor, and set a standard of importance for the awards that are to come...