Word: ve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that I've said what I have, I feel like apologizing for making such a big splash about such a little thing, but I hope to be helpful to TIME, as well as to myself in letting out this criticism before it became so inflated in me that I blew up and burst. Thank you for your indulgence...
...thank you," said the Candidate. "I've gotten along so far without flying and I guess I can continue. However, I suppose I will try it sooner or later...
Joseph Davidson of Chicago had a pretty girl, an automobile, a dozen watches and diamond rings. He drove into a gasoline station, said to the attendant: "Listen, sport, I'm in a jam. I've got to take my girl to a party and I'm broke. Can you loan me 25 bucks on this here watch?" The attendant obliged Mr. Davidson, who then went to other gasoline stations to dispose of his watches and rings. Mr. Davidson was no philanthropist. His watches were tin, his diamond rings glass. At the tenth station he was arrested...
Although I am a native of the district Senator Willis used to represent in Congress, I had never heard him speak until last fall when I was taken along-for-the-ride to a rally of Republican women at Columbus; and since that time I've felt like starting out on a crusade-a futile one, probably, for I must admit that the girls seemed to relish such examples of bawling calf oratory as (I quote impressionistically) : "that lovable, that noble, that fooo-oully maligned man, Warren G. Harding"; "the gloooorious wooomanhood of the State of Ahia"; etc., much...
...Those elephants. They've been at my vegetable garden again...