Word: unco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scattered through the last twelve years of Robert Burns' life, John Drinkwater has tried to give not so much an historical as a spiritual biography in play form. Yet the story is not maltreated. The first scene shows him as a young plowman already cheerfully confronting woman and the unco godly in the persons of Nell and Holy Willie? laughing and singing...
...campaign deficits be published and monthly lists of those who contributed to make up such deficits be given after each election. As penalty for failure in these duties he attached a $5,000 fine, one year in prison, or both. This proposition was such that none of the unco-good Senators could oppose it. Senator Robinson, Democratic Floor Leader, assisted in framing it. Senator Edge, sponsor of the bill, thought the publicity clause had no place in a postal salary measure. So he refrained from voting on the amendment. The vote showed 55 Senators in favor of the Borah amendment...
RAIN?The United States Marines collaborate with Jeanne Eagels (as a lady who isn't no real lady) to ruin the unco guid-ness of a peevishly pious missionary while tropical rain pours down incessantly on the just and the unjust and shivers chase each other on the audience's spine...