Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down the streets they go, the loudspeakers blaring, the horns honking, the henchmen cheering, and the political boss who organizes the loudest noise brigade wins the election. For America loves a big noise, and the bigger and noisier, the better they love it. The political boss must be colorful, for America loves a showman. The political boss must be clever, for America loves a juggler. Dazzle the common man, for Honest John Public loves to be dazzled, either with gilded promises or gilded coins, and the brightest dazzler wins...
...Detroit Tigers, for the professional baseball championship of the U. S. Before it was over it had set three records for events of its kind. It was the coldest anyone could remember. It drew such huge crowds-close to 50,000 for each game-that players got a bigger bonus than ever before: $6,831 for each of the winners. It produced the weirdest alibi ever offered by a losing team: "demoralization," brought on by abuse from an umpire...
Jimmy Melton's yacht is named Melody, and it's bigger than any twenty he made when e was a boy in Florida...
...proves that, despite the blatant propaganda of our navalists terrorising Congress into giving them a bigger navy, Japan has no thought of annexing the Philippines and sending an armada to attack San Francisco. he proves that, despite the cheap haranguing of sensational newspapers, Japanese labor cannot compete against American labor in this country, even if we were to abolish tariffs altogether. he proves that, despite the world's anti-imperialistic sympathies, the end justified the means in the case of his country's going into Manchuria...
...unfortunate that a man with Smith's unbelievable mentality should be wasting his time on mere college students. There are bigger places in this country for men like Smith. It now transpires that the President has been wasting his time. Brain trusts are unwieldy things at best, and still have not the wisdom of one G. H. Smith, "Hoping you will find this original service of mine of some real aid to you, I am, Very sincerely yours, G. H. Smith." "And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all h knew...