Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laugh at politics-usually not a difficult thing to do. After the first act, it slipped into melodramatic farce with all the values torn into broad comic strips and hurled heedlessly across the footlights. The tearers were a downtrodden doctor who sets himself up as the bunk boss of a small town, and a rich and vapid widow; the opposition was the Irish Imperator of the village. Occultism is included and a fake Hindu servant. Most of the acting was negligible...
...bays in which the carving has been completed, there are groups of bosses depicting the Seven Sacraments of the Church, the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, the Seven Deadly Sins. Thus, for a mute warning, the effigies of Vice stand against the effigies of Virtue before the face of the Lord. Ingenious are the presentiments of the Seven Sins-pungent apothegms in grey stone. They wear modern clothes, those jaunty evils; they are grouped about a central boss, Penance, symbolized by Peter, who receives the keys of the Church from Jesus Christ. The seven...
...recent meeting of Art Students (young and old) while discussing Harvard's mysterious dip into subterranean, dark cavities in its effort to clandestinely, yet conveniently, reach Rome and accept a (gefill't a fish) gilt-edge catechism direct from the skeleton hand of that animated stalking, rattling boss of the profitable Catacombs...
Clem L. Shaver, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Jesse H. Jones, finance expert of the same Committee, George W. Olvany, boss of Tammany, all rushed down to the harbor in Manhattan to say farewell to the French Liner Paris. Aboard were Mr. and Mrs. John W. Davis...
...year, was elected to fill out the short term, elected for the full term. He retained his post as Republican National Chairman, in Roosevelt's time was the leader of the conservative wing of the party, and all in all came as near to being a national political boss as the country has ever seen...