Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surrender. Exhausted by his long losing fight, Generalissimo Reed Smoot wearily hoisted the truce flag and in a thin voice announced his terms of surrender. Admitting that he and his Old Guardsmen were beaten, he said: "The Senate should take a recess. . . . Let the coalition agree upon amendments. . . . Let the vote be taken in the Senate upon the amendments without a word of discussion and let us pass a bill." What he proposed, in effect, was that the Democrats and Progressive Republicans should reframe the tariff bill in committee during recess, with the certainty that their majority could then pass...
...help themselves. . . . Senator Smoot was present . . . and was as much disgusted with that booze party as I was. I do not want to put any intimation that he took one of those flasks or used liquor because he did not. . . . Senator Gooding [of Idaho, since deceased] did not take one of those hip flasks and neither did I. As to whether the other boys did, they can answer for themselves. A good many of them, those Wall Streeters, were very active in getting the flasks. I noticed that...
...pocket and poured out some of that alcoholic stuff. I have had enough experience in the chemical laboratory to know that it had a heavy content of alcohol. He poured that in the glass and then he poured in some water?it was too strong to take raw?and he drank that and a lot of similar operations went on around the table...
...Quentin, Calif., where inmates are enabled to take extension work in the State University at Berkeley by correspondence. There Warden James Bernard Holohan, a firm-fisted 200-pounder, guards over 5,000 inmates. Among them are Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), killer of his common law wife, now chief of the convict fire department; Clara Phillips, who killed a lady intimate of her husband with a hammer; famed Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings, sent up for life from San Francisco on evidence since found to be perjured. Currently famed is Mrs. Frances Leano, for whom San Quentin can provide...
Salt Lake City. Murderers sent to this prison for execution are allowed to choose between hanging and shooting. Almost all take shooting...