Word: belt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world's champion heavyweight pugilist, is working locally for the Democrats. Last December he was made a Democratic Committeeman in the Second Ward of Chicago. The theory was that he, one of the most famed Negroes of all time, could do much toward organizing the Chicago Black Belt the way Harlem had been organized by the New York Democrats...
...afraid, let him come out of the tall ragweed and hay belt. I myself will go out to New Rochelle to hear him but not to Colorado! JOHN B. BENNETT
Lubricating local machinery was pleasant. Mr. Raskob again assured everyone that there would be some $4,000,000 on hand. About $500,000 would go into the Corn Belt, he said, and $600,000 for the nationwide radio campaign. Lest these sums sound too large, he took care to add that he had learned "from well-advised Republicans" that the G. O. P. campaign fund, now announced as between three and four millions, would reach six or seven or even eight millions. G. O. P. Chairman Work quickly retorted that Mr. Raskob was being "absurd...
Click! The automatic lifebelt release on the Captain's bridge hurled a belt, coated with luminous paint, into the darkness. Click! The Captain's controller whirled from Full Speed Ahead to Full Speed Astern. Twenty-eight thousand figurative horses stopped galloping forward, galloped backward. Click, click, click! The powerful searchlights of the Augustus were switched on; and, as she stopped, lifeboats were lowered from whirring davits...
...picture of the executives who are over 40, and show them how they look in silhouet in the nude, I think it would impress them. . . . I preach to them three things-posture, exercise and the wearing of suspenders. There are more big stomachs caused by the wearing of a belt than any other one thing I know of, because if one doesn't stick one's stomach out, something embarrassing is going to happen...