Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young Bob LaFollette, with his father's platform and his father's organization, was picked as the logical winner. On his behalf Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota, and Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Progressive Democrat of Montana, came campaigning into the state...
...Robert Tyre Jones Jr. they remembered well indeed, the chubby Buster Brown of 17 from Atlanta, Ga., who qualified so brilliantly in the amateur championship of 1919 at Oakmont and blazed through his matches to the very final. Two former champions had sickened at that fell onslaught, tall Bob Gardner of Chicago and seasoned Walter Fownes of the home club, and only with difficulty did ponderous Dave Herron at last fix a damper on the ardent cherub, who swore and flung his clubs when a crashing drive soared astray or a tricky pitch was topped...
...instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable for lowering them all. Lest this cable break or tangle, an electric switch in the "bell" would disengage its prodigiously weighty lower shell, allowing the upper half and its occupants to bob upwards in safety. Three electrically driven propellers would maintain the "bell's" vertical suspension in this emergency...
Governor Blaine has Senatorial ambitions but it is reported that he has effected an arrangement with "young Bob" whereby the Governor should run against Senator Lenroot next year, and Bob Jr. should run this fall for his father's seat...
...young Bob could certainly not be classified as a supporter of President Coolidge. Report has even gone as far as to say that the regulars of Mr. Lenroot's group, supporters of President Coolidge, contrary to Mr. Lenroot's professed confidence, consider it almost useless to make a fight against Bob...