Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buses. Out of Washington, D. C., rolled two spanking motor buses, red, white and blue, laden with loudspeakers and literature. One had the same destination as the eastbound Hoover Special-West Branch, Iowa, the Hoover birthplace. The other rolled for Providence, R. I., to campaign with Curtis. This new ballyhoo...
Flags and bunting flew in Topeka, Kan. An enormous portrait of the inmate was hung outside a bedroom window of a modest frame house in a leafy residential street. Citizens made holiday. Indians made whoopee. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio made a speech-and Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas...
Said Nominee Curtis: "... I accept the nomination. ... It is not in the nature of man to refuse . . . humbleness . . . neighbors and friends . . . loyal . . . prosperity . . . prosperity. ..."
Editor White once called his stout political friend, Nominee Curtis, a "nit wit." Asked, last week, if he was still of that opinion, Editor White said: "I am. Go ahead. They'll probably prove that I beat my wife."
Joining Indian tribes is good politics in the U. S. President Coolidge joined the Sioux last year. This year the whole G. 0. P. affiliated itself with the Kaw & Osage tribes through Nominee Curtis. Notable among individual joinings this season was an event last week in Wisconsin. Sol Levitan, Jew...