Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coolidge shaped his campaign in 1924, that Herbert Hoover made "permanent prosperity" with a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage the major theme of his campaign in 1928. Last week it became apparent that Franklin Roosevelt was waging a campaign for re-election which at bottom was exactly the same as the Hoover campaign of 1928. In the White House, President Roosevelt might appeal to citizens' minds and hearts with lofty ideals and daring plans, but on the stump Nominee Roosevelt devoted himself exclusively to voters' stomachs...
...first is a hurdle equipped with rollers on the bottom so that when it is hit by a hurdler passing over it, it will roll over easily rather than offering any resistance to him. Another feature of this hurdle, which is designed to meet practice needs, is a strip of canvas which replaces the top bar. Thus any hurdler who clips it will not have his ankle skinned...
...evening last week an automobile with a big trailer stood parked on a peaceful hillside near the town of Washington in southern Indiana. Below, at the bottom of a dark slope, the waters of a small lake shimmered faintly. The hour was nearly midnight and the car itself was dark and empty, but a soft light glowed from the windows of the trailer where a honeymooning couple were preparing...
...Shortly after the first of the year, Insull friends put up $200,000 for A. B. C., gave the old utilitarian the presidency, let him pick three members of the five-man board. Profits of the chain (21 stations in the Midwest) stayed out of sight but the bottom of the original pot did not. Few weeks ago after Vice President Quisenberry shot away President Insull's control of the board, it began to look as if the old man might become a mere figurehead. Last week A. B. C. announced that the 76-year-old tycoon had resigned...
...asininities of James Cagney as Bottom, and Joe E. Brown and Hugh Herbert as two of his dramatic colleagues, are truly asinine, and therefore far superior to the formalized, cut and dried nonsense one is used to seeing...