Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News photographers begged Nominee Curtis to pose for them in the act of farming. Honest, he retorted: "You've got to take me as I am. I'm not farming...
...Moskowitz's husband repeated: "Take his hand out of the farmer's pockets and off the farmer's throat...
...baby donkey into her arms. "Send it up to Albany," she said, laughing and crying at the same time. She dispensed scores of autographs, shook hundreds of hands, nodded answer to a thousand salutes. She went straight home to Albany, with only one brief stopover, in St. Louis, to take tea with President Lewis Warrington Baldwin of the Missouri Pacific R. R. It was really a very simple experience, during which Mrs. Smith at no time seemed nonplussed. She had, after all, undergone the same sort of thing several times before. Mrs. Charles Dana (Irene Langhorne) Gibson, who was present...
...seven-year-stickler for tradition speak amuck, at last, shattering a precedent which was established when Speaker Charles Shaw Lefevre was created Viscount Eversley by Queen Victoria in 1857.* Perhaps only once before has John Henry Whitley broken with tradition. In 1921 he was the first Briton ever to take the Speaker's Chair after having been "in trade" (in business). Modest yet inflexible, he last week retired as a commoner entitled to a pension of £4,000 ($19,440) a year, having risen from the nonentity of a poor cotton spinner. His successor is Speaker...
...shrewd was a dig taken at Right Honorable Members by Speaker Whitley in his last address to the House of Commons: "The duties of the Chair do not become lighter as the years pass on. With each new Parliament there are more members who wish to take an active part in the proceedings by question or in debate, and a Speaker often carries to his pillow an acute sense of loss for the speeches that were undelivered?speeches no doubt much better than those to which he has listened. [Laughter, cheers...