Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael Curley came with his son to kneel beside the shrine. Last week the estimated attendance...
...truth of Professor Roger's advice to have two pair of pants, for on his haberdashery almost alone has Mayor Walker ridden to fame and fortune. In Boston haberdashery failed to assist a candidate for in the reign of mud that preceded the election few presses could endure. So Curley is in the saddle again. It may be hoped he will not break the camel's back...
...press last evening the CRIMSON had received the following election returns--Richard M. Russell '14 was elected mayor of Cambridge by 4,000 votes over the present mayor. Edward W. Quinn Jimmy Walker was re-elected mayor of New York by a lead of over 300,000 votes. Jim Curley was leading his nearest rival for the office of mayor of Boston by 18,000 votes...
DONT SCOLD STOP WILL EXPLAIN STOP CURLEY WILL WIN IN BOSTON AND QUINN IN CAMBRIDGE STOP WALKER WILL CARRY NEW YORK
...offices, there is a terrific shock in the spectacle now being played in Boston. One candidate remarks "The people of Boston have elected some peculiar figures in the past but they have never elected a consummate liar": another wields witty puns on the straight and the Curley; charges break from harmless general statements and turn to reciprocal specific slanders...