Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even void of humor, the only thing that could possibly have excused its appearance in print, and contains only enough of official data to make it more insidiously poison to the uninitiated in its apparent effort to condemn the dog, the exhibitor and the bench show, and since the owners of the kennels you have listed are good sports and real lovers of the dog, you may be assured that they will feel the same about this article, uninteresting to the sportsman and misleading to the public...
...give four per cent of your news space to the same thing, only doing it better. Have your editors become addlepated? You denounce with gusto the mistake of the daily press but are not satisfied until you have advertised Mlle Roseray and parboiled reporters for two and a half columns...
Work Done. The first thing the 70th Congress did in December was to make amends for things left undone in the filibustering 69th Congress, by passing a Deficiency Bill of appropriations to pay the back bills of assorted Government branches. Also, the House shoved along to the Senate with dutiful promptitude, appropriation bills to run the Government until July 1, 1929. By last week all but two of the ten Departments, and most of the independent bureaus, had been provided for. The two Departments yet to be provided for were Agriculture and the Navy and last fortnight the Agriculture moneys...
Miss Bell. Very natural and to be expected is the discovery that Miss Bell, who labored so long amid aboriginal peoples, did not advocate their ruthless repression,* as did the Queen. For one thing, Gertrude Bell's whole life was led in perfect intellectual freedom and with few curbs upon her remarkable physique. After taking a brilliant First at Oxford she was for a time coquette enough to refuse to ride alone, one evening, with a young man in a hansom cab; but not long thereafter her loves became Persia and Palestine and the wild crags of the Swiss...
Died. Thomas Sawyer, onetime railroader, original of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer according to his sister, Mrs. Flaville Pineo of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; in Tucson, Ariz. No such thing, commented Cyril Clemens, second cousin of Author Twain. He added that "Tom Sawyer" was a composite character...