Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made oldtime G. O. P. bosses successful, says Charley Michelson, was "ignoring the mutterings of the Liberal group of Republicans." The same principle, he thinks, will work in the future. Only chance for a Republican comeback is to stop straddling the liberal-conservative fence, return to the "rock-ribbed citadel of oldtime, fundamental conservatism." That is why Alf Landon and John Hamilton, both tainted with Western progressivism, should be tossed overboard. The Republican National Chairman should be an emotional as well as physical resident of Manhattan, should "sit at the feet of the magnates, political and financial, and saturate...
...mere $3,121,000 old Mr. Ball and his friend George A. Tomlinson, the Great Lakes ship operator, had bought that control from a Morgan banking group at the most spectacular auction in Wall Street history; how Mr. Ball had expected the Vans to make a comeback and how the two Cleveland brothers had died almost within a year of each other, leaving...
...smashing defeat of the Tiger oarsmen by a rejuvenated Harvard shell on Lake Carnegie last Saturday strikes a high point in the comeback of Crimson athletics which has been developing over the current year. With a football team that turned the tables on the predictions of newspaper sages the country over, a court squad that made good its claim to major-sport ranking, and a swimming team that left the prize Bulldogs waterlogged and weary for the first time in thirteen years, the college has burst forth with another top-flight sport...
...enriched with a useful word for characterizing a thing once great, recently moribund, and once more reviving. There is real need for such a word. Phoenix is too classical a term, associated with the speech of political spellbinders and suggesting Arizona or life insurance to the casually trained; comeback, while genuinely native, has too verbal a connotation and is associated in the American sport-lover's memory with too many disappointed has-beens to be very useful. And the current American Recovery, plus the myriad full-circle swings of the pendulum of popular interest in this always amazing country...
...break off the affair, Julia was beside herself. But she was a sensible woman, after all. She let him go, got over it somehow, then set about making the new play a success. In one of the best bits of acting in her career she made a triumphant comeback, incidentally showing up the young actress for whom Tom had left her. Tom came crawling back, but Julia was really cured. After the first performance of the new show, she went off to a restaurant by herself to have a really good time. She ordered oysters, grilled steak and onions, fried...