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...white eyebrows crinkled with disgust, John Nance Garner one day last week threw down the magazine he had been reading, summoned Indiana's Sherman Minton to take the chair, stalked deliberately out of the U. S. Senate. Senator Minton settled down with a copy of Many Laughs For Many Days, by Humorist Irvin S. Cobb, tried to ignore the speech being made by Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore (''The Man") Bilbo. For 27 hours and 45 minutes before Senator Bilbo arose, the Senate floor had been occupied by Louisiana's bushy-haired little Allen J. Ellender...
...made him think of America. So he let the elder Fung know and his journey to the U. S. was arranged. Hounded by reporters from the time he docked in Vancouver until he stepped off a train in Manhattan, Fung Kwok-keung, unable to speak a word of English, threw himself weeping into his father's arms...
...check for 10,000,000 piastres ($257,000), half of the royal dowry (the other half to be paid in case of divorce). The father then reached out his right hand thumb upright to King Farouk, who pressed his own right thumb against it while the Sheik El Maraghi threw a green silk cloth over both hands. Intoned the bride's father...
...Park. For the sheer pleasure of it as well as to pay the debts he easily contracted for his growing family, Wright took what jobs he could get designing private houses outside the office. This angered Sullivan and in 1894, after nearly six years with the firm, Wright threw down his pencil and walked...
...talking sentiment. I find it much more natural for her to fall down on a perfectly smooth carpet." Witty as Dorothea was, by the time they have finished her private letters most readers will be able to understand why, after eight years of them, Metternich suddenly threw her over and married a young girl not half so aristocratic nor half so harsh...