Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fort Worth, Tex., he accepted a sombrero and said: "This is the nearest thing to Jimmy Walker [his playboy predecessor] that I've ever...
...Speaking of purges, I've been thoroughly purged. In Congress in 1924 I was taken off all my committees, but I didn't whine about it. I told Nick Longworth that if he wouldn't let me attend his caucuses I wouldn't let him attend mine, and I'd hold mine in a telephone booth. " His standard crack whenever Presidential 1940 was mentioned: "I couldn't even rate a gallery seat in either party convention...
Lofty was the niche shared last week by Gordon and Norris Blodgett, 21 and 18, of Hollywood. Into a downtown Manhattan telegraph office clacked Gordon and Norris, with important-looking documents in hand. "Stamp our papers, quick," said Gordon. "We've set a new transcontinental roller-skating record-seven weeks, three days, four hours and two minutes." Carrying packs labeled HOLLYWOOD TO NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR ON ROLLER SKATES, they had crossed the U. S. without accepting a hitch, had worn out 192 wheels, had arrived seven months, 23 days early for the opening of the Fair...
Campaigning for Congress as a New Jersey Republican, Madeleine Edison Sloane, daughter of Thomas A. Edison, explained her candid candidacy: "If I had the taxes that go for this relief I could give a lot of people jobs. . . . I've never had any political life, so I don't have to worry about political suicide if I speak my mind...
Hearing that British Drug Tycoon Philip Ernest Hill (Beecham's Pills. Ltd., Veno Drug Co.) was taking the cure at Carlsbad, the London Investor's Review printed a joshing jingle. Excerpt: I've tried all Beecham's products, I've absorbed the stomach powder . . . Iron Jelloids, Veno's Cough-cure (but my cough got only louder) . . . And so I've come to Carlsbad, and I sip the filthy water . . . Proprietary medicines-are they everything they oughter...