Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Woollen. Thomas Taggart, boss Democrat of Indiana, likes to take his delegates to the national conventions lined up behind one Indianian whom they more or less seriously advance for nomination. Later he swings their votes in line behind some other section's candidate. But there is always the chance that the Indiana man will be one of the men and bring glory to Indiana and Boss Taggart...
...when the Taggart man was the late Thomas R. Marshall. In 1920, Mr. Marshall failed to repeat, but in 1924 it looked much as though Boss Taggart had engineered successfully? until the late Senator Samuel M. Ralston (a perfunctory Taggart man that year) withdrew his name...
Otto Grow: "Ef I kin get uh chanst to duck when me boss ain't lookin', I'll be there. Ya can't tell me they're goin' to play baseball alla time...
...bridge of the Cincinnati stood the heavy-jowled boss of Chicago. Glum, pouting, he clutched in his hand the manuscript of a wet and undelivered oration. In vain he sought the attention of crowds toiling on the levees. Had he ventured too near, shotguns would have banged and rifles crashed. The wash of his steamers menaced tottering dikes...
...that the United States was a sluggard in its own War, that it was mean in remaining out of the League of Nations, selfish in kicking itself out of the World Court and can be made respectable only by paying cash for the good opinion of the world, a boss prostitute taking its only chance for redemption. . . . We'd rather Princeton played dirty football under Roper than shamefaced internationalism under Hibben...