Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Battle Lines. In that room was visible evidence of the broken lines of the two political parties. Wisconsin's Progressive Bob La Follette Jr. found himself shoulder to shoulder with conservatives who ordinarily have no truck with him; hulking David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, who wants a big two-ocean U. S. Navy, found himself working smoothly with Missouri's rosy-nosed Bennett Champ Clark, who has consistently voted against every large Naval appropriation increase since he entered Congress...
...unless such potential horrors as the bombing of Westminster Abbey or the destruction of Paris swing U. S. sentiment; 2) while delaying tactics probably mean victory for the Isolationists, the U. S. public will stand for no filibuster; 3) he must join with his fellow-Republicans in holding down Bob La Follette, who is bent on stealing the show for the Progressives. Well he knew, too, that the Administration's 49-vote majority was a paper majority, that paper majorities are like paper profits unless quickly taken...
...last major fashion edict-that hair simply must be upswept-overcame the temporary setback to the hairdressing art caused by the wide acceptance of the medieval pageboy bob, a hair fashion that needed slight and infrequent attention...
...hairdressers hissed Greta Garbo for maintaining the overlong bob that is her trademark...
...Muldoon (later T.R.'s sparring partner), who was then touring the minstrel circuit with Charley Mitchell, the little man who wouldn't stay down for the great John L. Sullivan. Joe learned to box (well enough to claim the bantamweight championship in 1886, and troupe later with Bob Fitzsimmons); and he learned the tricks of tunesmithing. This trade paid. In his time he has turned out 28 musical comedies, has written, among his 500 songs, such daisies as Goodbye, My Lady Love, What's the Use of Dreaming?, Central, Give Me Back My Dime. Married seven times...