Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treaty is a speaking solemnly of undisputed things. It is something of a feat to have persuaded so many nations (14 of them besides the U. S.) to speak solemnly in concert about anything. The difficulties in the way of getting such a treaty ratified are: 1) Some people object to solemn-speaking on the ground that the more solemn a thing is the more unreal it is; 2) Some people object on the ground that the more solemn a thing is the more binding it is-the more it may commit the U. S. to an international course beyond...
...State and souse-wet in another, and where churches and schools will elevate one city and gin mills degrade another. States' rights and local option would mean alcohol ad libitum and ad nauseam wherever the whiskey rings held political sway; and that is not a thing to be contemplated in any sort of a sincere temperance program...
...that I should not advise legality for legality's sake, forgetful of the national needs or the real condition of the country." President Calles then indicated that he advises the legal election to Congress, without obstruction from the party in power, of representatives of all opposition factions-a thing unheard of up to now in Mexico. "My advice," he continued, "is based on my conviction that admitting into Congress representatives from reactionary groups, even from clerical reactionaries should not alarm true revolutionaries,* because if we all have faith, as I have, that our new ideas are now shared...
...that he was backing the show.* Right beside Ringside will open The Big Fight, starring Tex Rickard's onetime breadwinner, Jack Dempsey, et ux.; thus providing theatre-goers with an example of dramatic coincidence and the opportunity to show whether they prefer a good approximation to the real thing...
...exercise is the most prolific cause of disease or ill health in our executives. If he would take a picture of the executives who are over 40, and show them how they look in silhouet in the nude, I think it would impress them. . . . I preach to them three things-posture, exercise and the wearing of suspenders. There are more big stomachs caused by the wearing of a belt than any other one thing I know of, because if one doesn't stick one's stomach out, something embarrassing is going to happen...