Word: bayards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bootlegger remained, best of all best dogs. Said W. A. Davenport, critic: "He is a corky little chap, with a varmint expression, and his name is Barberryhill Bootlegger. He is the property of Bayard Warren and was born in the Barbary Hills Kennels, Pride Crossing, Mass., on Dec. 21, 1920. His mother was Western Wistful, a lady of great distinction and considerable social prominence. His father was Barberryhill Gin Rickey, an alcoholic champion whose son inherits his liberal ideas, as you can see by the name...
...chief political figures in the Anti's firmament were Senator Bayard of Delaware and Senator Bruce of Maryland, both Democrats, and Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland, Republican. Besides the regular sessions of the Conference, there was a dinner at which Representative Hill toastmastered and the two Senators spoke, advocating modification of the Volstead Act to permit the Government, without the reincarnation of the saloon, to sell regulated amounts of alcoholic beverages for home consumption (a system similar to that in force in various parts of Canada...
...gives out he gets back; it is a sort of circle. He was so vibrant that I found my heart thumping with excitement, as though I had drunk champagne, which I hadn't! He talks a lot, but talks well; is never dull. Last week Mr. Swope?Herbert Bayard Swope?newspaperman extraordinary and editor plenipotentiary, put over a coup. Swope, executive editor of The New York World, went to Washington in a private car, trailing substantial citizens and potent business men in his wake. He returned home jingling the Democratic National Convention of 1924 in his pocket. The story...
...dinner of rejoicing at the Shoreham. Boss Murphy of Tammany almost forgot that The World, although Democratic in politics, is Tammany's foe. He, who never speaks in public, rose and carefully said: "I want to propose a toast?a toast to that able and active man, Herbert Bayard Swope." Public Ledger (Philadelphia...
...victory in the convention fight belongs not so much to any candidate as to the influence of The New York World in the Democratic Party, and the energy expended by Herbert Bayard Swope, that paper's executive editor, who started out some months ago to take the convention to New York and has done so." New York Tribune: "An additional bouquet belongs to The New York World, which originated the proposal to bring the convention to New York and led the fight in its behalf." The New York Times: "Chief credit for bringing the National Democratic Convention to this city...