Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thank you! I could not possibly sing for so ill-bred...
...some routine questions as if they had never heard of Laborism and Mr. Macdonald. Then Captain Hacking, Deputy Controller of the Royal Household, clad in his magnificent robes of office, walked to the Clerk's table and announced that he had a message from the King. The message: "I thank you for your loyal and dutiful address* and will at once give it my careful consideration." Exit Captain Hacking. Enter Mr. Macdonald from behind the Speaker's Chair. He was loudly cheered. Premier Baldwin arose, was cheered vociferously by the Conservatives, and said: "As a,result of the vote which...
...been a great privilege to spend the last four years as the representative of the far-extending great empire over which my King rules. I want to extend my thanks to the press of this country for their scrupulous carefulness in reporting me, I want to thank the railroads for the courtesy, the punctilious carefulness, the attention which they have showered upon me, my party?attentions far more extensive than we had right to expect. I want to thank the people throughout the length and breadth of this land?thank them for their unfailing courtesy, their thoughtfulness, their coöperation...
...their knees each day in prayer for "Godless Harvard" I resent as a piece of unwarrantable impudence,--of sanctimonious smugness,--of orthodox whipper-snappery. To me their prayers sound strangely like the prayers of that Pharisee, who "went up into the temple to pray" and stood, saying "God, I thank the I am not as other men are." W. J. NICHOLS...
...like standardization of ideas and ideals. And we have no compulsory chapel. These things give other colleges the impression that we are 'godless.' We thank them for praying for us; but we call our conception higher...