Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friends play up the farm idea and prepared to be called from the plow. . . . But he answered curtly the reporters who questioned him. Once, at the Kansas City railroad station, he gave a Hearst newshawk an ungentle shove and said: "You newspaper men will get along better with me if you wait until I have something...
...Manhattan applauded Mayor Walker's speech and said: "If what you said tonight could only reach the ears, the hearts and the souls of the citizens of New York and also of our great country they would be made to realize that the United States has no better friend than the Holy Mother Church...
...Army is strong on soubriquets, and nowhere does the bearer of an historic nickname fare better than at West Point. Henry E. ("Light Horse Harry"*) Wilson, Army football captain last year and Army football crackerjack the past four years, took both the Edgerton Sabre (for being football captain) and the Army Athletic Association Sabre (for being best all round athlete) at last week's West Point ceremonies. It was the first time that a cadet had won both swords. Some people said that the nickname hypnotized the judges. This was most unjust, for Cadet Wilson outstood in baseball...
...fact that Mexico is on the eve of a presidential election with only one candidate in the field-onetime President Alvaro Obregon. Presumably his inauguration is assured for next December, and last week Prelate Ruiz hinted broadly that he had received assurances from President-Apparent Obregon that better times are coming to Mexican Roman Catholics...
This mild magazine cover farce, improbable and not hilarious, was written by Fred Ballard, who did so much better with Believe Me, Zantippe, and by Charles A. Bickford, who acted a hardboiled newspaper egg in Chicago...