Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...senior. Prof. Branner introduced him and said: "Miss Henry thinks this rock belongs to the precarboniferous age. What do you think. Hoover?" Hoover didn't think so. While he was explaining why, Prof. Branner was called away. Miss Henry and Senior Hoover kept on discussing rocks. He could tell her a good deal about geology. She repaid him by helping with his English when it threatened to flunk him and prevent his graduation...
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics MacCracken exercised his persuasive powers, induced Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh to fly from New York to Washington last week, to tell a joint committee of Congress what sort of airport the capital ought to have. To the Committee, headed by air-minded Senator Bingham of Connecticut, Col. Lindbergh laid down the following specifications...
There should never be starch in napkins, dresses, shirts, for starch is Chometz, which is leaven. The house must be thoroughly cleansed of Chometz. The night after the feast a father or a grandfather may tell the little ones of the house to say only half their prayers, for that night "God is nigh to his people." Thus may begin the holy feast of the Passover, symbolic of liberty, memorial to the exodus, and to the night when the Lord's angel slew the Egyptians' first-born but passed over and left unbereft the homes of the Israelites...
When Indiana's Watson, the Republican leader, tried to tell Senator Heflin that the Senate could not properly pass his resolution, the Alabaman, with bellowing surprise, asked if Watson wasn't the "finest old he-horse of the Klan." Senator Watson puffed and protested. Senator Borah rebuked Senator Heflin for bigotry, only to have the Democratic leader, Robinson of Arkansas, who has more than once rebuked Senator Heflin similarly, retort: "The Senator [Borah] can now speak of religious liberty, but you never heard him make such an eloquent appeal during the campaign. Then he was as dumb as an oyster...
...Corporation has "no intention of acquiring a ten million dollar endowment fund for the support of athletics." Out of a host of possibilities one is withdrawn. The present surplus may be allowed to accumulate to an indefinite size and for no purpose at all as far as one can tell from the Delphic utterance of the authorities...