Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady Astor, Conservative, had a tiff with Tom Johnson, burly Laborite. Said her ladyship: "The honorable members opposite are always getting after me because I refuse to join the Socialist party...
...Retorted Tom: "The noble lady will be well advised to stay outside the Socialist party until she understands what Socialism means." ¶ During a debate on proposed increase in the British and U.S. Navies John Harris, Liberal, asked the Government: "Will the British Government approach the United States Government concerning the possibility of another naval conference with the object of preventing a new race in the construction of this [cruisers] powerful type of warship...
...work was begun in 1862, planned for five acts, never finished. Four acts were sketched out, but not orchestrated. The instrumentation was done by Tom-masini. The spectacles, upon which a whole school of painters, designers, costumers and stage managers have been engaged for more than a year, included the Appian Way, a temple, an orchard and the Circus Maximus of Imperial Rome. More than two million lire were spent on the preparations. The story, of course, ends with the devastating event of the burning of the city. All of which sounds like the text of an illustrated program...
...seems to range in age from eight to eighteen, according to the impulse of the moment. By turn she is petulant, frowsy, winning, pusillanimous, firm. But she fuses this all together with her indomitable histrionic spirit, and saves the part from being a teapot tempest of tears. Tom Nesbitt and Wallace Ford provide good shadows for the background, but the aunts are mere stalking horses...
...Tom Taggart, Democratic boss of Indiana, exclaimed to reporters: "I do hope that Harry Daugherty will stick and that he will look his yelpers in the face and tell them where to go. I have known Daugherty for years. We were neighbors in Ohio. He is a kind and generous man who will do anything for people without compensation. He was always that way. Daugherty is too good a man to do anything mean or petty. I do not believe a thing that has been said against...