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Representative Blanton of Texas got the floor. After a characteristically long-winded beginning, he said: ". . . Have the citizens of this land become so helpless that they have to have Grandmother Linthicum from Maryland walk around with them to protect them from poisoned alcohol...
...there is not enough hair on the involved faces to stuff a pin cushion. . . . "The more lenient critics believe we are unacquainted with contemporary poetry. Well, has there been any poetry lately? . . . "Belasco could recruit a troupe from our groups-Borah, the hero; Jim Reed, the villain; and Blanton, the mob scene! . . . "The press gallery often catches and transmits the noisy nothings at the discomfiture of the aggregate wisdom. Those journals, sniffing for human interest effluvia, prefer parliamentary riots and such outbreaks as the Battle of Blanton and Bloom to the interpretation of drab statistics assembled by the drudges...
...harsh critic, he is James V. McClintic. It was voted to correct the record to show that Mr. McClintic was not responsible for some jokester's practical prank. Alone among the legislators to protest that the House should investigate such time-wasting buffoonery, was Thomas Lindsay Blanton, Texas Democrat. No investigation was ordered...
...After the Canyon inspection, Mrs. Coolidge, in informal dress, danced, probably for the first time in five years, at a public dance in the lounge of the Grand Canyon Hotel. First she circled the room with her son; then with Col. Blanton Winship, the President's military aide. After that with Horace Albright, park superintendent. Then with W. M. Nichols, Yellowstone Park Hotel Corp. official...
...Sherwood A. Cheney, military aide to President Coolidge for two years, requested a change to more active service. The President announced Col. Blanton Winship, World War veteran, sole unmarried survivor of the famed "Bachelors' Club" as his successor...