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...another. Did the gentleman from Kansas see what the gentleman from Maine saw up there in the gallery? Should someone make a point of order? Hilda Jean Parker had been nursing about five minutes when House Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnott tapped Evert Parker ominously on the shoulder. Fishing in the pocket of his blue jeans, Father Parker produced not one but two white paste-boards?admission cards from two distinguished Senators, Huey Long of Louisiana and Carter Glass of Virginia...
...shall have the right to draw, like any Congressman, an allowance of 20¢ a mile for traveling round-trip between his home and Washington for every session of Congress. Since Uvalde, Tex. is reckoned 2,128 miles from Washington, the allowance will put an extra $851.20 into the Garner pocket...
...followers were proud to be called Wu mi ("infatuated with Wu"). He liked strong wine, singing and gold plate. His serious faults were his confidence that he was a greater general than Napoleon and his poor judgment of men. Wu at one time had all North China in his pocket. His ally, the "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, betrayed and ruined him. Time and again Wu, sickened by China's chaos, has retired to a mountain monastery in Tibet to polish up his calligraphy and his poetry, but he has always remained a hero to the Chinese masses...
...shots, scarcely glancing at his putts, wisecracking loudly to his caddy. Colonel William Lawson Little, watching his famed son & namesake try to win his second major British title of the season, found that a $1,200 letter of credit and several cashable checks had been extracted from his hip pocket by a thief who "had the impertinence to button it up again...
...down this dictum: "If the rights under the copyright are infringed only by a performance where money is taken in at the door, they are very imperfectly protected. ... If music did not pay it would be given up. If it pays, it pays out of the public's pocket. Whether it pays or not, the purpose of employing it is profit, and that is enough...