Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lawrence Richey, erstwhile of the U. S. Secret Service, lately raised to the estate of $10,000-per-year secretary to the President of the U.S. And he was looking for places where President Hoover might enjoy "the rejoicing and gladness" of not having "to decide a blanked thing until next week," as he (Herbert Hoover) once...
...objection is made to the Prohibition Law that it infringes the personal liberties of the individual. . . . Mr. President, there is no such thing as personal liberty in a republic...
...thing remained an Incident, if only because it was the first British vessel ever sunk by U.S. rumchasers...
...letter received lately by many a minister in the East. One minister, an Episcopalian, at once sat down and wrote indignantly to The Churchman (liberal weekly): "This sort of thing is an insult to the ministry." Editorialized The Churchman: "We agree...
When a linotype operator makes an error he has to complete that line of type before he can make a new line. The easiest thing for him to do is to run his fingers down the first two vertical rows of his keyboard. The result is the emergence of a line containing "etaoin shrdlu." And when the operator forgets to pluck the faulty line from the mould, "etaoin shrdlu" gets into print. So often has "etaoin shrdlu" appeared with a "Mr." prefixed, that Mr. Etaoin Shrdlu has really become a famed press personage. He has a relative who dwells...