Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headquarters, the Mayor-elect regaled reporters and press agents: he would establish an America First Association in every state in the Union; he would "show King George V where to get off"; he would be "Big Bill the Builder"; he would run the gangsters out of Chicago and let them go to St. Louis, Detroit, New York; he would "make the streets safe so that women and children can go to the movies at night"; he would not let the police go "sniffing around for home brew"; he might go after the presidency...
...familiar thing. A twelve-inch record signified something long and probably boring-"Chocolate Soldier Medley," perhaps, or "Selections from La Traviata." The music of the people was not bedight with red, gold and purple seals and it was not twelve inches wide. Such stuff was suspect, for the elect. Not until radio proved that the people will listen to music, even concerts and operas, until the orchestra drops dead or the vacuum tubes blow out, did phonograph-makers realize what a musical bonanza they had failed to exploit. And if long-time records would sell, then music that it takes...
...Freshmen have been scrimmaging regularly and they plan to elect their captain soon after the spring vacation. As yet they have only one game on their schedule, that with Yale, but Manager A. F. Hanna '27 is hoping to add at least two more contests...
Should the Associated Press elect to release an account, colorful or otherwise of the life and works of Editor Mencken, it could draw him to the attention of scores of millions of people. Therein lies its responsibility, a full sense of which Editor Mencken was moved to drive home. The American Mercury's account of the life and works of the Associated Press, on the other hand, reached only some 75,000 persons. These would be a great many if they really represented the "civilized minority" to which the magazine addressed itself at its founding three years...
...candidates will be addressed this afternoon by Coach Horween and Captain elect C. A. Pratt '28. Besides the coaches listed above, Horween will be assisted also by C. D. Coady '27, captain of last season's eleven and by other members of that team who are graduating in June...