Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing, Representative Burton of Ohio, wise G. O. P. veteran, had sounded a call for "an era of peace" just before the vote. A few regular Republicans such as Mr. French of Idaho, Mr. Green of Iowa, Mr. Luce of Massachusetts, Mr. Tincher of Kansas rallied round Mr. Burton; but the majority of votes which rescued the President came from unfamiliar sources: 62 Democrats (from Mr. Jacobstein to Mr. Swank); the lone Socialist, Mr. Berger; the entire Farmer-Laborite group, Messrs. Carss, Kvale, Wefald; Republican insurgents such as Mr. Frear of Wisconsin, Mr. Sosnow-ski, the Pole from Detroit...
...have an Ariemus Ward, a Josh Billings, a Mr. Dooley yet unborn. It is certainly to be hoped that this is true. For not only is the cool, sour edge of satire a keen tool to political progress, but without it, this business of government would become a dreary thing indeed...
...state by the industry of his executive council, has decided not to hide his poetic talents under the Indian equivalent of a bushel. He has issued his verse in a special velvet-bound edition which all good subjects will buy, at $55 the copy. The Nizam, who knows a thing or two about this business of ruling after all, thinks that under these conditions his verse may help to balance the budget of Hyderabad...
...classroom. But it is only the very exceptional student who has the initiative or the vision to be able to do so. Mere hard work and a desire to succeed do not uniformly bring results. Leaving the delights of scholarship out of the question, it is a soul-satisfying thing to be able to tell the butter and egg men that a group of successful and hardheaded lawyers have found that a college education is off practical value...
They give their chambermaids severe instructions. Nevertheless, other Manhattan hotels were envious when, last week, mice were reported in the Waldorf-Astoria. For one thing, these mice were dead. For another, they were, as mice go, famed. They had arrived in the luggage of Explorer-Engineer Grant Carveth Wells of England, who was going to take them to the American Museum of Natural History, where they would be mounted against a background of bleak tundra and labeled Lemmus norvegicus, the lemming. Stubby of tail, tawny of fur, blunt of snout, five inches long, lemmings are probably the only mice that...