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...judge, just as they may over-rule the one President. The two-thirds of each of these two bodies come nearer being a correct expression of the best judgment of the best people of the forty-eight states and better than could ever be secured in the dilatory, lumber-wagon delays and tardiness of the present method of bringing the laws of the land up to the moral purpose of present civilization, and let us not continue the delays experienced in adopting the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth amendments...
...latter began shooting at the police in the mother's downtown cabaret, the girl recalled the tableau long ago when her father was murdered in the old saloon. She recognized her mother and returned to her childhood sweetheart who had courted her from the top of a brewery wagon long ago. As routine picture entertainment, the film is a fair sample. In performance, Ricardo Cortez and Virginia Lee Corbin are conspicuous...
...means that they are unattainable. Surely you have heard the expression, 'Hitch your wagon to a star." It can't be done, you know...
...high-wheeled sulky days of Maude S. and Jay-Eye-See and created a sensation in 1892 by driving Nancy Hanks a mile in 2 :04 hitched to the new ball-bearing, pneumatic tire, featherweight sulky. In 1893, he drove three horses abreast, hitched to a high-wheeled skeleton wagon, a mile in 2:14. He held the world records for a trotted mile, two miles, three miles, other distances, and several pacing records...
...Iron Horse. Heralds had busily prepared the advent of this luxuriously equipped film with announcements that it was a second Covered Wagon. When it arrived, it turned out to be a steam engine instead of a prairie schooner and not such an irresistable choo-choo at that. The story attempts to be an epic commemoration of the spanning of the U. S. with steel rails. It is probably pretty good history but there was oil on the tracks somewhere and the drama never got completely under...