Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the great circus hall at midday? sweltering June midday ? poured the delegates. They sweltered and chattered and shouted while the band made merry. The performers began to come; George E. Brennan, boss of Illinois; Thomas Taggart, boss of Indiana; a host of McAdoo leaders ? Love of Texas, Long of Missouri, Herring of Iowa; Senator Copeland of New York, came in and went around shaking hands with every delegation...
...public officials then, repudiated by their party and under arrest; but today Fall goes unmolested on his ranch in New Mexico, Daugherty sat with Presidential approval in the Convention at Cleveland, and Daugherty's attorney was Chairman of the committee created to oil the steam roller of the worst boss-ridden convention of a generation...
MEET THE WIFE?Two husbands of a flighty wife learning the rueful answer to the age-old question: "Who's boss around here...
...BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK - Excellent foolery, in which the worm of music turns on big business. THE SHOW-OFF-A highly ticklesome comedy, turning bombast into a fine art. MEET THE WIFE-Two husbands of a flighty wife learning the rueful answer to the age-old question: "Who's boss around here?" THE POTTERS-An American genre study of amusing quality, with oil as the villain. CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden superbly proving that there's no fool like a gallant French fool. FATA MORGANA - An atmospheric, sporty Hungarian comedy in which a matron gives a youth a lesson...
...this boss, outlawed by the respectable element, who proves the only consistent person. He reunites husband and wife and gives the mortgage another chance. William Courtleigh made this rugged character seem real, despite the sanctity of his enforced halo. His was the most vivid personality in the play, and patrons went out smacking their lips over his aphorism: "A political platform is like a streetcar platform?it's not to stand...