Word: yore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Wilson's Cabinet seemed all at once to emerge from the shadows. From his engrossing paper, the Raleigh News and Observer, Josephus Daniels came, an infectious farmer-boy grin on hia gentle face, his thin unruly hair waving more thinly than of yore. In Washington to attentive audiences he propounded Democratic doctrine while he told them how to make an enlightened choice of a Presidential nominee. He said: "Fashions change in candidates as in dress. It is not probable we will go back to the Jefferson knee breeches or to Jackson in his fighting clothes...
...dose of so-called denaturant. How many juries could be found to send a man to the gallows for taking one drink of whiskey? . . . "Had the United States adopted Quebec's plan and price list on Jan. 1, 1920, we might have continued to drink alcohol as of yore, but in that event Uncle Sam would have accumulated the tidy profit of $7,108,000,000 in the seven years 1920-26 (sufficient to retire our entire War debt of $25,000,000,000 in 25 years...
...whole matter died away, but it was not forgotten. The loud grumbling of Delaware's Democratic Senator (see p. 10) was as nothing compared to rumors that presidential confidence could never again be respected as of yore; that the quaint rag-doll called "Spokesman" might be pitched aside and the President left without defense from his own tongue...
...Chamber of Commerce announced last week that American cities are changing their names more rapidly than of yore, 63 changes having been made in 1920-1925, as compared with 13 changes in 1915-1920. None the less there are still duplicate names: 31 Franklins, 27 Madisons, 25 Clevelands, 24 Monroes, 23 Wilsons, 18 Paris', 18 Genevas, 17 Berlins, 15 Adams', 13 Roosevelts, 12 Tafts, 12 Moscows, 11 Londons, 6 Pekins, 5 Hardings, 2 Brussels...
...ever through having had to examine their philosophies?Tristram's easy-going "all's-well-with-the-world," Brenda's aloof "live-and-let-live". In village and vicarage, where intolerant stupidity sprouts as prickly and impenetrable as a monkey-puzzle (cactus) tree, the blow-flies scavenge as of yore...