Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Curtis went to Raleigh, N. C., Martinsburg, West Va., and Wilmington, Del. Prohibition was his burden, immigration his refrain. He next entered New Jersey. If Democrats had been annoyed by Nominee Hoover's refusal to acknowledge Nominee Smith's presence in the campaign, Nominee Curtis made amends. He referred to "the dear Governor" and to "the gentleman from New York who thinks he is running for President on the Democratic ticket." The further Curtis itinerary lay through Connecticut, Massachusetts, upper New York, western Pennsylvania, into Ohio...
Sprague, captain and veteran 214 pound tackle, devoted a part of his time to kicking with Murreli and Cagie, the regular cadet booters. It is possible that he may share the punting burden with his two teammates in Saturday's encounter against the Crimson...
David Guarnaccia '29 spent a good deal of his time practicing with the kickers, and, in spite of the good punting of Captain A. E. French '29 in the North Carolina game, it seems likely that he will bear the major burden of the punting assignment. Guarnaccia's kinks were averaging around 45 yards...
...first scene is in the Manhattan home of the Rosens in September, 1917. Eddie Rosen (George Jessel) does not want to go to war because he does not want the burden of supporting his mother (Clara Langsner) to fall to his sister (Shirley Booth). He is drafted, sent to France. In a Y. M. C. A. hut he meets his onetime sweetheart (Lola Lane), learns she has married Eddie's onetime pal and fellow song-plugger (Raymond Guion), both of whom are singing and dancing for the delectation of the troops. From that point the story fizzles into...
Prohibition, which it is Mrs. Willebrandt's sworn duty and, intellectual passion to help enforce, was of course the sole burden of the Willebrandt oration to the Methodists. But she had laid herself open to Democratic charges of religious incendiarism. What would Hooverism have said if a Smith supporter, let alone a public official, should cry out for an anti-Hoover uprising of Roman Catholics...