Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Argument. The sole question at issue was the legal one: "Is a U.S. Senator a state officer?" The Committee on Elections, headed by Senator Goff of West Virginia, decided "No." A minority report was made by a Democrat, Senator Stephens of Mississippi, saying "Yes." A Senator is paid by the Federal government but chosen by the state. Whose officer is he? Some Senators declared it would be unfair to deprive a state of its full representation because of a legal technicality...
They can lead though. I found this little contribution upon the sunny pavement of a cool afternoon and was warmed by it. It is as the old fellow who still remembers when there was a Greenwich Village so often says "quite different." Yes, Quite...
...Prescott's fascinating "Conquest of Mexico." Prescott dwelt on the semi-barbaric culture of the Aztecs. He failed to stress the fact that the Mayas had an older and higher civilization, and to this day, if you speak of "ruined cities in Mexico," the average layman will respond. "Oh, yes, you mean the Aztecs." The fact is that the Mayas were far superior to the Aztecs in art, in science, in most of the refinements which make what we loosely call civilization...
...this point we had intended originally to insert a few paragraphs from a recent work of ours on "The Cattle Industry in Relation to Westward Migration 1650-1673". But perhaps it would be just as well to stop right here. . . . Oh yes, just a word about "The Red Kimono". It is a sermon by Mrs. Wallace Reid on the life of the streetwalker and its attendant evils. Being a bit irrelevant as far as we were concerned, it didn't get a very vital grip on our interest, except as it distressed whatever feelings we have...
...Yes, like the peasants of Zitlieff, Mr. Mencken aims for truth through the application of ordeal. He would delight to see the noble folk at sundown, beating their suspects into unconsciousness before the bar of justice. This is not the ordeal, however. The ordeal is to recover consciousness. And nothing could be more systematically fitted to the American critic's haphazard dicta than the impartially unjust manner in which the natives pronounce judgment. He who comes to his senses during the night is innocent; he who awakes at dawn is guilty...