Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of his life runs along with the speed of a prizefight from the University of Denver to Yale to the Harvard Law School to Oxford with the major interest ever on the boxing ring. One is always conscious of the somewhat loveable big-boy who is the author. The whole book is virile and thoroughly masculine, even when the author describes an evening spent with a group of "aesthetes" at Christ Church College where he war greeted with a lily. And always American, he does not escape that particularly American kind of snobism about titles. When he boasts that...
...Colorado, Alva Blanchard Adams. Pueblo banker, onetime (1923-24) Senator, and nephew of the present Governor, nosed out John T. Barnett, wealthy Denver oilman, for the Democratic senatorial nomination, vice Senator Charles Winfield Waterman, deceased. Attorney Karl Cortlandt Schuyler of Denver easily won the Republican nomination. The Democratic primary vote rose from 47.000 in 1930 to 122,000 whereas the Republican primary vote declined from...
...private car Pioneer, hitched to a special train, zig-zagged through ten States on its vote-seeking way to the coast. At Topeka Governor Roosevelt delivered a full-length address on agriculture. At Salt Lake City he delivered another on railroads. At Denver he was photographed giving a dirt farmer a high Harvard handshake. Prairie towns along the track turned out good crowds to greet him. They were not so large or so noisy as those that appeared in the same area four years ago for Al Smith but they seemed more likely to vote for the party...
...rainy days dulled the 84th meeting of the American Chemical Society in Denver last week. But the evenings were cool and refreshing. The chemists then renewed acquaintances, discussed the topics of their day, among which were...
...name of Fred G. Bonfils at anyone who knows Denver or the Denver Post and that person's mind will instantly register such adjectives as "handsome," "slick," "swaggering," "noisy," "audacious," "crafty," "lusty," "flamboyant," "hot-tempered." Other words, complimentary or vituperative, might occur to commentators biased one way or the other. For instance the Scripps-Howard Express (now the Rocky Mountain News) six years ago chose these brands for Publisher Bonfils and his Post: "shame," "disgrace," "bandit," "brigand." "lawless," "bunco," "scaly monstrosity," "mountebank," "... a blackmailing, blackguarding, nauseaus (sic) sheet which stinks to high heaven and which is the shame...