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...consists of 78 syllables, and 169 letters (in Greek). It is denned in Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (edition 1863) as "the name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, and fowl." What a way to spell hash...
Chief Council Clerk Louis B. Blakemore, with assistants waiting to spell him, began to read at 3:30 p. m. On & on he droned. Bored councilmen drifted in & out. When they gathered to vote at 11 p. m. the reading was still going on. Not until 12:15 a. m. were Cincinnati's ordinances finally secure...
Fortnight ago, the 1933 National Air Races were sublet to Los Angeles by Cleveland, the city which has control over them for the next eight years but was glad to get rid of them for a spell because they were costing too much money. The meet, stripped of usual stunt exhibits and daredeviltry, will be held July...
Precisely 38 minutes after it had taken up H. R. 1491 the House passed it with a unanimous roar. Trusting their new President to do right, members voted it blind, without a single word's change. Under the Roosevelt spell the House's deliberative session became a ratification meeting...
...before him, launched vigorously into his inaugural address. His easy smile was gone. His large chin was thrust out defiantly as if at some invisible, insidious foe. A challenge rang in his clear strong voice. For 20 vibrant minutes he held his audience, seen and unseen, under a strong spell. Only occasionally was he interrupted by cheers & applause...