Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yours for bigger and funnier nudist pictures...
None other than Craigavon's bitterest enemy, President de Valera of the Irish Free State (Southern Ireland), was elected a member of the Northern Ireland Parliament by the constituency of South Down. This kar-rumpf in his own puddle by a frog bigger than himself immensely shocked Craigavon. But it was no new thing. Favoring de Valera's croaking for a union of Northern with Southern Ireland, in 1921 and 1925 South Down elected him their member. Then a private citizen, he was barred both times from crossing the border. Now the head of a neighbor state...
...product of the industrial revolution, the soapbox, has left its mark on all consciously "proletarian" writing. Curbstone oratory, more effective in the open air than in the echoing covers of a book, is drawing bigger crowds than once it did, and publishers, their anxious fingers on the public pulse, are beginning to prescribe this form of mild dynamite. Though alert Publisher Farrar finds Upsurge "impossible to describe," he admits that this manifesto-poem is "frankly a message...
...population, 21 mi. south of Omaha. Business used to be good in Plattsmouth. Cass County farmers were near enough to the city to diversify and the Burlington Railroad shops always took care of 400 or 500 men. Then for economy the Burlington began to consolidate the shops with its bigger ones in Lincoln. Some of the men followed the shops. Families doubled up and merchants cut down. Depression settled over Plattsmouth like a wintry fog. Six months ago when the re-employment office was opened 1,300 applied for jobs...
...receptive, and appreciative. She said she thought that the best audiences were those in the south. "Of course," added Connie, "that may be because down there they don't often get a chance to see big stars like the Mills Brothers, and Kate Smith, so they naturally get a bigger kick out of a show when they...