Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mr. Curtis: "Yes, and on the lower brackets. ... I guess you are too dumb to understand!"
At Rosebud, N. D., Nominee Curtis delivered a brotherly lecture to a gathering of Sioux Indians. He said: ". . . Every man must work. You must overcome any tendency or desire to neglect work for other pursuits. In the early days of your history you were famous dancers and it is claimed...
At Sheridan, Wyo., tariff was the topic again. Campaigner Curtis, his 68-year-old voice grown husky from daily exercise out doors, recited-"Bacon, hams, buckwheat, cattle, corn, cream, eggs, hogs, lambs, lard, milk, potatoes, rye, sheep and goats, wheat and wool"—free list of the Underwood (1913) law, the...
Passing through Nominee Curtis's home state was great sport. The Brown Derby swept and waved at every platform pause. People said the crowd at Topeka was "as big as Bryan's"; bigger, even, than Senator Curtis got when he went home a Nominee?but then, everyone in Topeka knows...
At Westminster, Md., Senator Bruce of Maryland bumbled to an audience that Nominee Hoover had "taken numerous drinks with Clarence Darrow, noted criminal lawyer"; that Nominee Curtis had been seen "at Pimlico racetrack with a bottle of liquor in his pocket." The Darrow canard, stale and previously denied (TIME, March...