Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued popularity of night clubs, revues in the grand manner, automobiles in garish colors, all bespeak a desire for the rich and gaudy rather than a gradual return to a stately simplicity, while the actions of American tourists in Europe have been such as to show them far ahead of the Europeans as exhibitionists American prosperity made this country go off at a tangent, but once there, everybody rather enjoyed it and is still enjoying it. It is far too soon to suppose that Americans will come back to the little cube of ice, when there are so many more...
...Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts, Republican, art-col- lector, who accepts no pay from the state for his services, was re- elected. He ran more than 100,000 votes ahead of his defeated ticketmate, Senator Butler. Governor Fuller's opponent, William A. Gaston, potent lawyer-banker-businessman, has a wife who aids him. She wrote and, at her own expense, advertised the following letter on the day before election: "This is my last chance to do something for my husband in his campaign. . . I am proud of him. . . . It would take something far different from the Governorship...
...first ten to speed across the finish line, Harvard accumulated 25 points against Yale's 31 and Princeton's 64 to win the Big Three Triangular meet. Macaulay Smith, captain of the Yale runners, and W. M. Briggs, his teammate, flashed over in one-two order just ahead of five Harvard...
...Comptroller General McCarl been clipped. Heretofore, his was a high-handed office-he was not bound by the decisions of any of the executive departments; the Budget Act gave him a term of 15 years during which time he was not removable by the President. So he went doggedly ahead, running his blue pencil through Government expenditures-cutting out teatasters for the Navy, slashing the traveling expense allowances of Federal employes. He enraged many; some staunch Army and Navy men deemed him a menace to their free expansion. Now, perhaps, with the President's ouster power unrestrained, the squirming...
...South, I said: 'There is no office I want less than that of President of the United States. . . Let me tell you that these things are convictions that I have, and I don't care a continental if they destroy me politically and physically. I put righteousness ahead of politics always...