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...Benita Bischoff killed herself, President Hoover vetoed the Muscle Shoals bill. As we see it, that wasn't much of a story...
...then he sat almost upright, bent, however, on a bagatelle of introspection. What was wrong with himself? Wasn't he a gentleman? True, he did not twist puppy-dog tails, but then he had no poise. And what is one without the other? quotha. No, he wasn't a gentleman...
...Notre Dame v. Army game at Soldier Field [TIME'S historic episodes series: William Jennings Bryan making the Cross of Gold Speech]. . . . Bryan didn't look as you picture him. You show him flabby as he was in his later years. In '96 there wasn't an ounce, from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, that didn't belong to a physically perfect man. He had no double chin-though, if my memory serves me right, he did have the black bow tie. From a window of the Penny Press...
...Case Xo. 1967856-Appendectomy." The clerk who made out the bill entered: 'John Smith-appendectomy.' The patient who was the subject moaned: "They told me an appendectomy wasn't serious...
When Farmer Sprague, a free man, got home that night, he read of his victory in big black press headlines while his Wet friends puzzled him with assurances that he was another Dred Scott.* His cocksure comment: "Prohibition's a farce. I always knew the 18th Amendment wasn't constitutional. People should be able to drink what they want." Farmer Sprague & friends began to celebrate what they imagined was the end of Prohibition with heavy draughts of "cider" (applejack). Judge Clark's ruling, however, produced resounding results far beyond Wantage. His was the first Federal Court opinion...