Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retort to the Denver Smith speech, Senator Moses said: "Mr. Facing-Both-Ways has again descended from his eleven-car million-dollar special train to spread light and learning in those sections of the country which are unaccustomed to the effulgence of the Brown Derby. ... He misrepresents, distorts, bisects sentences and employs periphrastic phrases to make his points. . . . The candidate neglects to say that three of his own chief financial backers in this campaign-Messrs. Young, Brady and Ryan-are also leaders of the power trust...
Passing through Nominee Curtis's home state was great sport. The Brown Derby swept and waved at every platform pause. People said the crowd at Topeka was "as big as Bryan's"; bigger, even, than Senator Curtis got when he went home a Nominee?but then, everyone in Topeka knows what Mr. Curtis looks like. The Brown Derby was something of a curiosity as well as an enthusiasm...
...Montana. Passing through Wyoming, the Brown Derby was greeted by Republican Governor Frank C. Emerson and gazed at (from a hotel window) by aged Republican Senator Francis E. Warren. Democratic Senator John B. Kendrick was off in the wilds, campaigning...
Thus the Nominee came to Montana, home state of U. S. Senator Thomas. J. Walsh, arch-flayer of things oily and scandalous. He lost one of the brown derbies, a gift to Mrs. George Rathburn of Billings. But he found inspiration from two sources. The first was an early-morning remark of Daughter Emily...
...MYSTERY OF LYNDEN SANDS−J. J. Connington−Little Brown...