Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Write six Dry mottoes. (Samples: "Let us use alcohol, not waste it." "Law makers must not be lawbreakers." "The Eighteenth Amendment stands for better 'boys and better business." "Is Prohibition a success? Ask the bankers. Ask the Salvation Army. Ask the social workers. Ask the mothers. ASK EVERYBODY...
Just when Tammany Hall was bracing itself for a New York City-wide election this fall, a bloody body was last week plunked down upon its political doorstep. Frank Marlow, murdered Broadway gambler and racketeer, had hardly been settled in his coffin before a so-called Better City Government League nominated one-time (1918-25) Tammany Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan to run as an independent candidate against Tammany Mayor James John Walker. The Hylan war-cry: Stamp out crime, vice, corruption...
...Young Plan is certainly better for Germany than the Dawes Plan, stormed Herr Stresemann. Turning to the Nationalist benches he rumbled: "You could do, nothing else, and if you were to take over, the Government tomorrow your first move would be to do exactly as we are doing; recognize the obligations of Germany in order not to endanger the unity of the nation. ... Do you imagine the Government views the Young Plan as ideal? We consider it only as a regulation for a decade...
...bend over forward and try to butt Schmeling around to where he could be hit by a wild-swinging attack. After he found the range, Uzcudun thrashed often and heavily into Schmeling's ribs during their head-to-head clinches. But Schmeling stood it well and got the better of this horizontal infighting. His jolting up-jabs eventually got Uzcudun erect. Then Schmeling continued his face attack like a boxer wearing down but unable to subdue a brute. Eyes closed and bleeding, nose clogged, breath stertorous, Uzcudun, who had never been knocked out, was saved only by the bell...
...clear-voiced "legitimate" actors have hustled to Hollywood to get rich. With them has hustled Actors' Equity Association, potent labor union which controls the nation's legitimate theatre. But Equity has discovered a mighty objection to its regulations. Opulent Hollywood thinks it knows of its own business better than Equity does...