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...casuistry, thought otherwise. "They may talk from now until doomsday," said he, "about schools of thought and kingly sovereignty, but they cannot show you any single statute or any plausible reason that lets a sheriff put the interest that accrues upon somebody else's property in his own pocket. This man did it.. This man admits he did it." No one denied...
...times were in tune. When he announced his candidacy even his friends thought he was joking. When his enemies said he would be impeached. he declared he was also a candidate for impeachment. He started to campaign with $12 in his pocket. Leaving Mrs. Murray $1 for emergencies he travelled up and down Oklahoma haranguing the plain people to get behind him. He went up the creeks and through the swamps. He hitchhiked from town to town. Crowds turned out to hear his mastery of abuse and invective. He lived mostly on cheese and crackers. He was ridiculed and scorned...
...speech, indulges in vulgar mannerisms. But when he visited Washington last month and addressed an audience of cultured women he would have been almost unrecognizable to his Oklahoma friends. His diction was as correct as his clothes. His shoes were shined; a white handkerchief bobbed from his breast pocket; gone was the old sweat-stained felt hat. He won respect and admiration. Such is his showman...
...Manhattan restaurant Miss Alice Weigel, eating succotash, bit something hard, found it was a bright new dime. Angry, Miss Weigel called her waiter, showed him the dime she had found in her succotash. "Thank you," said the waiter, smiling as he departed with the dime in his pocket...
...enrollments. But wise acres heard that Acting President Swain had counted votes before the trustee meeting. Anticipating defeat (10-to-1) he flew to Washington, told the news which must have disappointed Stanford Men Hoover and Wilbur, flew back to San Francisco with the face-saving announcement in his pocket...