Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that should have shown which way the wind was blowing several seasons ago. The conclusion reached is an interesting one, and seems logically sound. Boston people are perfectly aware of these conditions; if they not only tolerate them, but encourage them by electing such men as Peiletier, Tufts, and Curley, they must be "that kind of people" themselves. In other words, they don't choose bad government and dishonest politics because of ignorance, but because they want...
...theories in the books which they spread before them. But as a matter of fact the unwilling listener is seldom overborne by the weight of this "table-talk"--he rather experiences the same feeling as he derives from overhearing in a Subway train two young supporters of Mayor Curley repeat to each other with variations the theme. "Gee, but I was drunk last night." Not that Widener conversation deals particularly with exploits in dissipation. It is only the tone that is similar...
...those airy children of light-winged fancy who live around the corner to disport themselves upon the breath of words; and to play the role of merry-hearted Puck. Readily will we wish Lampoon editors (nor will we, in a spirit of mean reprisal, add "and Mayor-elect Curley") a very merry Christmas and a New Year in which there will be innumerable candidates blest with the divine fire. And if our good wishes seem not to bubble spontaneously from an overflowing heart we beg forbearance. Even the infectious spirit of this jovial season will not permit us to forget...
...neglect going to the polls. But as that warning had no effect and as election after election in Boston has resulted in the same way, there seems to be little ground for hoping that four years hence, when the newspapers again fill their columns with exposures of the Curley regime, the public, or at least that part of it which was kept in doors by the storm, will be any the wiser...
...this, it might be objected, is a pessimistic view of the matter; we can hardly be expected, however, to rejoice, Pollyanna-wise, that Curley did not win by a larger majority. We might as well admit that there is something rotten in a state nearer than Denmark...