Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor-elect of Seattle went to Manhattan last week, arriving just too late to hear what the Mayor of San Francisco said to the Mayor of New York. Mayor-elect Edwards was there to inspect public utilities. Mayor Rolph of San Francisco was there on a holiday, with his high boots tucked under his trousers (as always) and wearing the first straw hat of the season. Just before Mayor-elect Edwards arrived, Mayor James J. Walker left town, as usual to make a speech...
...smart, well-read folk do not know his Confessions of a Young Man; his great trilogy Ave, Salve, Vale; and his more recent elusively rich and moving Heloise and Abelard (1921). The trouble with these works is, however, that they appeal merely to a small group, select and perhaps elect. Not until last week did George Moore know the crude, earthy, tangible joy of having written a play which London proceeded to applaud, not merely from the lordly stalls but from the common, vociferating gallery...
...editorial went on to say: "Citizens may be in doubt whether some supporters of Senator Deneen and Judge Swanson blew up their homes to elect their tickets, as Mr. Thompson and State's Attorney Crowe contend, or whether supporters of Mr. Thompson and Mr. Crowe blew up Mr. Deneen's house and Judge Swanson's house to elect the ticket of Mr. Thompson and Mr. Crowe. This is indeed a puzzle and a bewilderment, at this writing not near a solution. But it is nothing to the spectacle of Mr. Coolidge's gunmen coming in from...
...mansion where bullets pinged and splintered, last week, was that of socially elect Mynheer and Mevrouw Van Eeghen. Servants rushed in to find him shot dead, and her unconscious from a bullet wound in the head. A single revolver lay smoking on the floor...
...Willard 2L., treasurer of the Society, will act as toastmaster at the dinner, which will start at 7 o'clock. S. L. Rosenberry 3L., retiring president, and W. B. Carman 2L, president-elect, will speak. The following will be guests at the dinner: Professor Zechariah Chafee '13, Professor Felix Frankfurter '06, Professor J. A. McGuire, Professor Austin W. Scott '09, Brooks Potter '24, president of the Society last year, and Summer Babcock '24, vice-president last year...