Word: timeâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...excuse for deposing him would be that he ought not to have the double business of presiding all the time??? as he now must since there is no Vice President?and of carrying on the arduous duties of Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee. He could very well resign the latter post, except that then Senator La Follette would get that post by seniority?a dangerous eventuality for the regulars...
...three years, others (like Halley's Comet) take longer. A little luck?and you can predict unerringly just what grey-bearded quips will march from the storehouse to reappear, all reglanded and mineralaved, in The Naughtinesses of 1924. Then there are the political cartoons?stings drawn by time??? bringing only a philosophic wonder to the mind. The editorials in the weeklies?"the country will be ruined should B be elected, should the X law pass." B was elected?did he die in 1900 or was it 1901? The X law passed?and is as forgotten as the names of Secretaries...
...place?Chicago. The time???third week of June, 1924. These facts (pertinent to the next Republican Convention) were determined " at a gathering of Party chiefs" in Chicago last week...
...Gentleman of Leisure. The diamonds are stolen again?no, beg pardon, its pearls, this time???three strings of them?one genuine and two artificial. An incredible burglar says " demm" and " dese" and " dey " on the slightest provocation. Fashionable life at Bayshore is full of butlers. Sigrid Holmquist is very pretty. Jack Holt has a nice mustache. A villain is known by his white, white spats, etc. Which may sound incoherent, but is as faithful a report as possible of as chaotic a cinema inanity as has flickered out the storehouse for some time...