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White chinned Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, facing the facts, insisted that the agreement be ratified at once, as written, without reservation. Like bilious children avoiding bitter physic, the Deputies fought against ratification and used the issue as excuse to shin-kick the Poincaré cabinet. Meeting outside to Chamber, both the Finance Committee and the Committee on Foreign Affairs voted to ratify the debt agreement provided that a reservation was inserted making France's payments to the U. S. conditional on Germany's payments to France under the Young plan. Patiently Premier Poincaré reiterated that this...
Chicago. Wearing a pair of socks monogrammed across the shin with his name, "because one of my friends in North Carolina gave them to me"; jostled, huzzahed, jeered, cheered, gaped at, the Nominee spent three days in pandemonstrative Chicago. Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon drew a picture in the Chicago Tribune of an elephant looking down from a window on the crowd-banked Smith parade, and saying: "It's lucky for me that eagerness to see him doesn't mean eagerness to vote for him." That night the crowds burned bonfires of Chicago Tribunes in the middle of Michigan...
...Sinn Fein is pronounced "Shin Fayn" and means literally "We Ourselves...
...original library card catalog was on ¼ sheets of foolscap. Experience, showed it to be very wasteful of both time and space. Why can't we profit by this experience and make our paper currency at once better and cheaper? During the Civil War, we had shin-plasters of even smaller size and everyone had made a them cheap most folder that convenient kept and them flat durable. . If and the Treasury can't be induced to reduce the size of all bills, it might at least give us $1 and 50c bills of postal sizes. MELVIL DEWEY...
Rowdyism. At several points rowdyism assumed serious proportions. In Glasgow, H. J. Tennant, the Liberal candidate, was forced to seek police protection, while Miss Violet Robertson, Conservative for the St. Roller constituency, was spat upon, "kicked in the shin" and "treated insultingly" by a crowd of hooligans. In London H. Hogbin, Liberal candidate for Battersea, was forced to cancel all his meetings because he could never make himself heard. Even the pleas of his opponent for fair play failed to help matters. Lord Curzon was another victim of the rowdies. There were many other incidents of "howling down" meetings...