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For many years, it has been the right, the privilege and by some esteemed even the duty of Congressmen to secure, each for his constituency, the finest, fattest, most expensive public building that he could wheedle out of his colleagues and the Federal fisc. So, in a spirit of sympathetic...
Finis J. Garrett, Democratic Floor Leader, was quick to point out possible evils which might arise from this departure?the possibility, for example, of log-rolling between the Cabinet and some members of Congress. Said he:
White eyeballs rolling, puffy lips twitching. (P. 27, col. 1.)
There are many kinds of anchorages; but it is safe to say that there is one place where a vessel will never anchor. Some SO miles from the coast of Japan, the Nipponese man-of-war Manchu dropped its sounding lead. The sounding wire rattled from the drum. Ten fathoms...
As Dillon, the Indian player who had the ball, passed the successive five yard lines and the audience defected the hump on his back, the rolling roar of laughter sounded like the incoming ride on a rocky coast