Word: count
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...pond. From the noise in the wagon, the man was sure all the bullfrogs were still there all the way. But when he got to the pond, he found that all but two specially noisy frogs had jumped out. Good Jim Good's good moral was: Don't count your votes by the amount of noise they make before election...
...President Hoover breathed more easily. Returns then indicated that the worst (for him) had been averted. With only 40 districts to be heard from, the Democrats had only 183 House seats, 35 short of the vital figure of Majority. As the morning wore on, the Republican count crept slowly closer to that vital, fateful...
...control of the 72nd Congress continued to seesaw, Democrats, led by Chairman Jouett Shouse, continued to claim a full House majority of their own without insurgent Republican aid. They placed a heavy stake on Kentucky where a new law delayed the count which they hoped would put their party across and elevate Representative John Nance Garner of Texas to the Speakership...
Visiting Angora last week was Hungary's Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, Prime Minister. Occasion for these two auspicious visits: Seventh birthday of the Turkish Republic...
There apparently is very little field for invention once a playwright has started out to write a show about a minister and a bad girl. One can generally count on a second act curtain in which the minister, having visibly weakened in his fight against the devil and his pomps during Act I, abandons himself to the delights of the flesh. Examples: Romance, Rain. The scene of Pagan Lady is laid in Florida, in a little town to which a convention of preachers has been attracted. One of the divines is Franchot Tone, a capable young man recently admitted...