Word: bryan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus ended the honeymoon-campaign tour of Democrat Ruth Bryan Owen, retired U. S. Minister to the Court of King Christian of Denmark and Captain Boerge Rohde of His Danish Majesty's Life Guards...
...which in 99 years of supporting Democratic Presidential candidates has been unable to stomach only William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and 1908, did not go so far as Pundit Lippmann. Never more vigorously oldline Democratic than in its indictment of the Roosevelt ventures toward planned economy and its confession of faith in low tariff, State rights, "economic liberalism," the Sun forlornly concluded...
...injury forced Defending Champion Wilmer Allison to withdraw his entry. The rest of the seeded players included Jacques Brugnon and three young Frenchmen performing in the U. S. for the first time to gain experience; that coterie of second-flight U. S. stars, like Sidney Wood, Bryan Grant, Frank Parker and Gregory Mangin, who long ago made it clear that their playing would never justify their potentialities; and the latest schoolboy sensation from California, 18-year-old Robert Riggs of Los Angeles, who has won eight major tournaments this season...
...each other's stomachs, woke to find they had slumbered over the North Pole. Elated, Negro Henson led three Eskimos in three whooping cheers while Explorer Peary planted the U. S. flag. Reflected he: "That was the happiest day of my life." Lincoln's Mayor Charles W. Bryan, thrice (1923-25, 1931-35) Governor of Nebraska, onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency, brother of the late Great Commoner, spied a couple hugging each other as they drove down a Lincoln street, followed them into a beer tavern. At the Mayor's complaint, the bartender refused...
...Mayor Bryan followed them and again the couple got no beer. Irked, the woman cried: "You are ruining my reputation!" Snapped virtuous Mayor Bryan: "A woman who lets a drunken man hug her for two blocks on a sultry afternoon is putting her reputation at stake...