Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work Done. The Senate of the U. S. last week...
...Work Done. The House of Representatives last week...
...have now twisted this sarcastic epithet around to refer, in complimentary manner, to his legislative skill in herding bills through to passage. For the past eight years he has been chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, a post largely honorary since the House Appropriations Committee really does the hard work of framing supply bills...
...Strawbridge movement appeared to be in retort to the work of fashionable Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin of Manhattan and other founders of the new Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, whose object is to stamp out the hypocrisy of dry-voting by wet-drinkers and get the law changed (TIME, June 10). Socially formidable antagonists to Mrs. Strawbridge in Philadelphia will be Mrs. Archibald Barklie, Novelist Agnes Repplier, Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Clark...
...activities the B. of T. P. & P. M. claims the "high sphere of public morals." It helped to bring about Prohibition and with that work it has been chiefly identified since. It opposes "nudity, blasphemy, profanity and the treating of revolting subjects in the American theatre . . . commercialized gambling, prizefighting and the debauching of the young by publications which are indecent or which are clearly intended to excite lascivious feeling...