Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Mayor of Baltimore, Republican William Frederick Broening, no candidate for reelection, carried his city by 20,000 votes in 1927. Herbert Hoover won it the next year by 10,000. Last week's huge Democratic turnover made Democratic national headquarters in Washington dizzy with delight. Executive Chairman Shouse pronounced it a major '"trend" which, coupled with the Chicago election last month, foreshadowed Republican defeat in 1932. More pleased than anybody was Governor Ritchie who saw in Jackson's victory important assistance for his own presidential candidacy...
...lion (name: Prince), thought that was well enough. When the bloodthirsty crowd yelled for more spectacle, he demurred. He was arrested and Prince was returned to the ring. As Prince leaped again to meet the bull's charge, a horn impaled him, killed him, to the huge delight of the San Luis Potosians...
...Last week Langer Heinrich ("Long Henry") was enthusiastically chosen not Buürgermeister but Oberbür germeister (Lord Mayor or Chief Mayor) of Berlin in which there are some 20 district mayors. Always popular, Herr Dr. Sahm seemed last week especially to delight Berliners, his election producing two elephantine jokes heard everywhere...
Though they have yet to make their mark in the world of art, the Princes of Reuss (Germany) are the delight of genealogists. More spectacular is the fact that ever since the 14th Century all male members of the House of Reuss have been named Henry and numbered serially. There are two systems of numerology. The elder branch of the House of Reuss names its Henrys from 1 to 100, then starts in with 1 again. This branch is now extinct in the male line. The first and second limbs of the junior branch name their Henrys according...
...gracious beauty of bells rung for the beauty of their ringing. Our experience, we find, was limited. We are now to hear bells we have never heard before, and their din of Slavic tunes from a staid Georgian tower is to set at nought our thought of chimes to delight or console. Yes, we were mistaken, doubtless. (Name withheld by request...