Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ruth Baker Pratt of New York, widow of a Republican financier, campaigned with the experience of a society clubwoman who had come through the rough-and-tumble of big-city politics. Even Manhattan's "silk stocking" district has its seamy side. Mrs. Pratt encountered Tammany methods within her own party before securing her nomination. A somewhat amateurish city alderman, she was opposed for nomination by a highly professional State Assemblyman, Phelps Phelps. Her primary victory seemed due to her astute counsellors more than to her social appeal. The seat in Congress which she sought was held by one Tammanyite...
...shows us that our descent has not been only from the ape, it is also from the tiger. The tiger must be not merely apprehended but eliminated if the state is to survive. The ape in us has come through history with spiritual power. The tiger has not. That is a difference worth remembering...
...brief, embattled Smith leadership in the national Democracy. It silenced any reproaches that might have been uttered against the party-faithless South. The victories in Massachusetts and Rhode Island only intensified the disappointment in New York. If those people had voted for him, and if arch-Republican Connecticut had come within 40,000 of chiming in, why had his own people forsaken him? The four times they had sent him to Albany, his plurality in New York City had always been about half a million. That would probably have been enough this time, at least to give him a start...
...haired Irish Tim of Buffalo, there had been a day in France when, in the full regalia of Colonel, and flashing his automatic he had bellowed: "Come on! They can't hit me and they won't hit you. Let's go." The men he thus summoned at the battle near Landres and St. Georges, he had made iron by drilling them to fight each other naked to the waist and to run miles in bare feet. A poet, Joyce Kilmer, had followed him jubilantly unto death. "Hard boiled'' they called him and terribly "Wild...
...Delano and Aldrich. The building in which they work, designing perhaps 30 mansions every year, as well as office buildings, schools and churches, is an old stable neatly rebuilt into studios and little rooms. At its front are some of the little round windows which, erroneously enough, have come to be regarded as identification discs upon the works of Delano and Aldrich...