Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chin, they turned confidently to the editorial page, ran expectant gaze over a column captioned "Author! Author!" Could it be true? The opening paragraph ran, ". . . Mr. Coolidge really ought to think twice about making such a speech as he made Tuesday evening. Another speech like this one, and first thing Mr. Coolidge knows he may have a suit for plagiarism on his hands, brought by the editors of the Encyclopaedia, Britannica." Democrat readers beamed, folded their papers back gleefully but Republicans were not much alarmed. Had this same lead appeared in the immaculate columns of the Times things would have...
...open secret that in this affair there are only imagary dates of payment, which will lead up to a loan with solid security in the shape of our territorial possessions, as was the case for Turkey. Such a thing, Mr. President, I am bound to tell you we shall never accept...
...which you appear to espouse, and therefore I assume you will have the business honor to refund the price which I paid for your magazine; if you are deficient in that honor you will not, of course, return it- in any case I do not want this tumid, sacrilegious thing in my house! JOHN R. RIEBE...
...Davis, one-time nominee (1924), corporation lawyer emitted a dictum and a prophesy for his party: The dictum: "One delegate, one vote; the majority of votes to nominate." Both the "two-thirds" and the "unit" rules should be abolished. The prophecy: "If the proposed change is a good thing for the party, it will be a good thing for the candidate. If it is a bad thing for the party, it will be a bad thing for the party's Presidential nominee." In Raleigh, N. C., a semi-bald, placid, likeable newspaper editor amuses himself and satisfies his readers...
...moon became a mad sun leering like an eyeball in the forehead of a vast, demented skyscape. Nothing made him so angry as praise of pictures he considered poor. Once a financier stopped with ponderous approbation before the worst canvas in his studio. "Marvelous, Mr. Innes. The most perfect thing you have done...