Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...widely traveled but we are sure we know numbers of Negro porters more interesting, fellows who can say "Yassah, Boss" so much more winsomely as to leave no doubt that they average better than the $1.00 per passenger...
Therefore if our young man wants to go into politics and, as President Coolidge once said, has office holding for his hobby, he had better go to the nearest street corner in the week before election day and make the acquaintance of his ward boss and take his orders from him. He will then be a small cog in the machine of his district and state and depending on his ability to deliver the votes and his knowledge of his bailiwick will be promoted...
...found himself, at the outset of the War, an onlooker at life. Brought up by an overcareful mother, he had not followed his gay and reckless stepfather into the professional life of the circus. Instead he had made himself a rich lawyer by marrying the daughter of a political boss. Unsatisfied in his desire to live thoroughly and without compromise, he leaves his wife and goes to another girl in whom he has seen the possibility of a deeper relationship, tells her that he will enlist and come back to her after the War. Thus he fulfills the essential vigor...
...Moore, by giving the graduate treasurership his own full time, constructed for this office a complete, an efficient, a business like system, for use of the time of others: In a word, he created and perfected a real business organization. One which now will run on, even though the boss be gone on a holiday a holiday which also was a Solidiers' Day from which he will never return. The Boston Transcript...
...Telephone Girl (Madge Bellamy, Holbrook Blinn). A political boss uncovers illicit love in his opponent's past. But he needs the name of the lady involved to make the scandal complete. After a frantic search pivoting about the telephone girl, he discovers the faintly scarlet woman is his daughter. Speedy melodrama capably acted...