Word: stills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frankfort, Ky., where the oldest U. S. cell block (1798) is still in use. Several Southern prisons use the disciplinary strap, but not Kentucky. Said the late Warden John Chilton, dean of U. S. wardens, who died six months ago: "If I used a strap on those hillbillies they would lay for me till their dying day. I'm a hillbilly myself, so I know...
...clothes. . . . My ambition is to make everybody in the city smile. . . . You ain't seen nothing yet." Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me! . . . People don't resent graft any more. . . . At least give the corpse a chance to cool. . . . Yes, I still believe in democracy...
...Protestant candidates in Virginia. The stigma of political irregularity had been allayed by Mr. Raskob's work for the Democracy in 1928; indeed, this stigma was transferred to the anti-Raskobians by their alliance with the Virginia Republicans in this year's primary. But still in the hearts of oldtime Democrats may have rankled a suspicion of Mr. Raskob's millions. Men who voted for William Jennings Bryan could not easily accustom themselves to the Wall Street aspect of the Raskobian democracy, savoring of the Cross of Gold, fat money bags and the stockmarket...
...Helen knows of Peter's long journey through the years and, like him, perceives that the veils of Time are thin. She is unwilling to see him suffer in an age ill-adapted to his experience, so back he goes to his own century to fondle Helen's memento, still preserved in the old house, and to ponder her epitaph while his 20th Century fiancee leaves him, both of them disconsolate...
...attraction of Wellesley girls for Harvard men, if one is to judge by the amount of mail which goes out daily from the Brattle Square postoffice station, is still the greatest in the colleges of the north...