Word: digger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keen a wit elevated to high political places. The shafts of Mr. Moses penetrate swiftly wherever he sees an opening in his opponents' armor and are usually fatal. It was he who analyzed the farm bloc as "several lawyers, a few editors and one well-digger." His wit is not of the Harrison sledgehammer type. He plays the fish, and then he neatly spears it, while the audience roars. It was his sardonic humor which put the prophecy into the mouths of observers that he would never rise higher than Senator...
When the fourteenth amendment is attacked in New Orleans upon the ground that a "person of African blood and descent . . . is inherently incapable of becoming a citizen of the United States", it is not to be supposed that come digger-up of dead issues is engineering a senseless assault upon impregnable principles. The fourteenth amendment gave the negro political equality with the white man, but far from settling the race problem, it simply ended one stage of its development and inaugurated another...
TARNISH?A keen study of the world, the flesh and the gold digger...
...California, when ships laden with optimists were dashing madly from the East coast to the West, around Cape Horn, in ISO days. Eastern papers blazoning forth "California advertisements"-sales of trunks, guidebooks, tools, cough-drops, coffee grinders, collapsible boats, patent medicines, rubber garments- every conceivable article a gold digger might conceivably require-even one enterprising concern announcing: "Ho for California! Last, not least! Persons going to the gold regions are seriously advised to take, among other necessaries, a good lot of monuments and tombstones. A great saving can be effected by having their inscriptions cut in New York beforehand...
...double service as the final agent of the forces of justice and as a never failing source of comic relief. Miss Roach his a hard task as the heartless thief of love and husbands and does it well; alternating with grace between the gracious lady and the unfeeling gold digger. The rest of the caste, Mark Kent as Judge Perry and Anna Layng as Mrs. Davis especially, maintain the high average set by their associates...