Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gates were opened and the crowd swirled around the train. Someone handed the President a copy of an early election-night edition of the Truman-hating Chicago Tribune with a banner line: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, and he held up the paper to the crowd, grinning...
...mortgaged his house in Detroit s fashionable Grosse Pointe suburb to raise funds, and did his campaigning by driving around the state with his wife Nancy, in a beat-up old De Soto convertible. He benefited by Michigan labor's determined espousal of the Democratic cause, but never managed to draw a crowd bigger than 350 people. Last week as the votes came in, Soapy Williams seemed fully as surprised as Kim Sigler...
...city, county and state policemen. They started shooting revolvers, shotguns, Tommy guns and tear-gas shells into Bad Boy's window. After they had shot in 20 gas shells, they ran across the street and up the stairs of the rooming house. Bad Boy turned his .22 around and shot himself through the roof of the mouth. He was dead when the cops broke down his door...
...news went around the world with the speed of light: the owlish little man in spectacles-not the fellow with the mustache-had won the U.S. election after all. And the experts, including especially all the American experts with their wonderful, scientific slide-rule assurance, had been grievously, laughably wrong. The world, cheering for a miracle of any kind, loosed a 'delighted, friendly roar...
...What the Hill is Condon off around Hair?" asked the Sage of the Age, observing his Green assistant...