Excerpt from The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed House of Representatives, of editing the reports of his speeches by inserting Applause and Laughter in the printed version, a practice which has made the House appear to be a very stupid sort of body, go ing wild with enthusiasm over eloquence the cheapest and most fustian, and convulsed with laughter over jokes the point of which years of subsequent study have failed to disclose. Indeed Reed had the reputa tion of not even revising the reporter's notes in order to correct the ...
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Excerpt from The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed House of Representatives, of editing the reports of his speeches by inserting Applause and Laughter in the printed version, a practice which has made the House appear to be a very stupid sort of body, go ing wild with enthusiasm over eloquence the cheapest and most fustian, and convulsed with laughter over jokes the point of which years of subsequent study have failed to disclose. Indeed Reed had the reputa tion of not even revising the reporter's notes in order to correct the little slips and errors that will inevitably creep into reports of speeches made in a body like the House. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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