Word: soups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet), who whispered in his ear. At the conclusion of this dramatic whispering Expert Samuel reversed his decision of a moment before and consented audibly to a reduction of the tax on lighters. Thereby he gave the Laborites a prime chance to whoop, heckle and deride him as a soup-will, a ninny-pinny...
...citizen fall sick in the Balkans or in Turkey. Let him brood upon slimy gutters, promiscuously expectorating citizens, and the greasy scum which swims upon his especially ordered soup. Let him grow sicker. But finally and mercifully transport him to a clean bed and a cheerful room in the American Hospital at Constantinople. He will then realize the special and comforting importance of that institution. He will understand, why, last week, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Joseph Clark Grew, took care to conduct through the Hospital and its adjoining School for Nurses an august guest, his cousin, John Pierpont...
Mathias Blau of Chicago persuaded his wife, Helen, to have all her teeth pulled. Then he refused to buy her false teeth because, he said, it was cheaper to feed her on soup than on solids. Mrs. Blau went to court, was awarded two sets of store teeth and at least a beefsteak a week. Judge Jonas told Mr. Blau that he had committed "the meanest trick" he had ever heard...
...Heart of a Follies Girl should not be touched with a forty-foot pole. The plot is like a last year's fresh egg. The captions are like nice round soup dishes full of soup. The girl (Billie Dove) is like a seven-course dinner in which each course is a can of condensed milk...
...Tell It To the Marines) or even dressed as a cadet (West Point). This time he is a polo grandstand player. Here Actor Haines, rich man's son. flirts with Constance Howard, presses undesired kisses on her, steals her slippers at a dance, throws his shoes in the soup at a Park Avenue dinner party, salts and eats the carnations. None the less, this objectionable young man has a mount on the U. S. polo team. In the last two minutes of the final chukker in the international match he knocks the winning goal, ending his baroque antics, closing...