PERSPICACITY

Evening Star, Issue 19290, 1 July 1926, Page 3

PERSPICACITY

scene in American senate Extract from. Ran Francisco ‘Chronicle’s ’ report (Alarch 21) of United States Senate:— Senator Ashurst, of Arizona: “The Senator from_ Maryland is employing his ‘ perspicacity ’ and , . . /That remark sent pages scurrying for dictionaries, ns nobody knew just what ho might have_ called them. “■Wait a minute,_ colleagues! It’s words like this that is costing onr Government 48dol a page almost apiece when they are that long, so I ask the Senator from Arizona to please withdraw _ that word and see if he can’t substitute a shorter one meaning the samp thing,” asked Senator Smoot. , Jim Reed, who hadn’t been in an argument for almost ten minutes, spoke up happily again: “Ho don’t know any other word that moans the same thing, because ho don’t know what that one meant.” Senator Smoot: “ Well, if Senators don’t know wbat words mean here I would ho much obliged to them (as a member of tlio Finance Committee who has to furnish the funds for this Worst Joke I have heard to-day record) if they would get onc-.syllablo words, a.s I say it costs 50dol a page.”