Word: dan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have made little difference to the outcome of her campaign had Governess Ferguson been brought to bed by the wreck. Practically speaking, it was not her campaign at all but another campaign by her vigorous, fire-eating husband Jim against two other candidates: red-headed Attorney General Dan Moody, aged 32, and a politically inconsequential wight named Lynch Davidson...
...Issues. Young Dan Moody, Jim pointed out, had no overseas record. His girl changed her mind after the War and married a returned hero. That showed you what a slacker Dan Moody was. And now (last April) Dan had married some one else. What the voters of Texas ought to know was just what part this new Mrs. Moody was going to play in the state if Dan were elected. Would it be a "Jiggs and Maggie" proposition? Jim made that sound like a question almost as serious as the Ku Kluxers, fondness for whom he ascribed to Dan Moody...
...splendid flair for bluffing. At a judicious moment last week he released an article called "The Result," in which, with a column of figures that would have impressed the average farmer whether he could read or not, it was told that "Ma" Ferguson would receive exactly 453,884 votes; Dan Moody exactly 307,887; and Lynch Davidson about 63,000. Moody men guffawed. Lynch Davidson growled about "political liars." Jim Ferguson hitched up his pants and hustled on to wind up his free-and-easy wife-boosting rodeo...
When Jim Ferguson heard that Moody had accepted the challenge, he threw up his hands and ejaculated: "Dan is a blowed-up sucker and a gone fawnskin...
...Dan is a blowed-up sucker." Who is Dan...