Word: biggers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Following their still-pond-no-more-moving policy, State Bosses Hilles and Morris of New York made known that any old boom might come to their State and try to get delegates. The small Lowden headquarters in Manhattan closed, but only because the Lowdenites were going to make bigger & better efforts among upState farmers...
...Debated a bill to appropriate some 400 millions to maintain the Army, including provisions for better barracks, bigger meals...
Dozens of men and mules died side-by-side with dry, festered tongues. Children were fed flies. Santa Anna brought up bigger guns, battered down the stone walls of the Alamo, butchered the remaining haggard Texans in cold blood. Only a Negro and a few women were spared. All through Texas cries went up: "Remember the Alamo." But Texans were not given to cries without action. To get Santa Anna, they chose a commander named Sam Houston, 6 ft., 3 in. in his moccasins, of whom President Andrew Jackson said: "Thank God, there is one man at least in Texas...
...sons. Faced with the choice of a new husband, she at last declines the proposals of her husband's stepbrother although these are reinforced by the per- suasions of his family. Instead she marries her U. S. lawyer, Bryce Sutherland (clubs: Racquet and Tennis), because he is a bigger and better man. Author Graham writes polite romance in mannered English and affected French. Disregarding the roses and raptures of vice, she paints, with a small brush dipt in gilt, the lilies and languors of virtue...
...inspirational idea that one is building bigger than perhaps he will ever know comes infrequently enough in the wee hours when, as the News says editorially, necessity "will not take 'no' for an answer but demands that that paper must come out in acceptable form every morning." Curiously, such inspiration is most needful, as the CRIMSON can bear witness from its own semi-centennial in 1923, when the newspaper is obliged to reverse conventional birthday procedure and treat its readers to a gargantuan supplement...