Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time was taken up by G. O. Partisans who wanted to tell him how good they thought his Des Moines speech was (see below) and urge him to go into their territory and make another like it. Exclaimed blind Senator Schall of Minnesota: "Mr. President, you just knocked 'em over with your address. Everywhere I go I can see the fine results...
...getting on the national stump. Senator-reject Broussard had started a court contest against his successful opponent. Huey Long, smart lawyer who took a three-year course at Tulane in one, decided to postpone his departure until after the court hearing Oct. 5. Then, he said, he would "tell 'em plenty...
...enfants! An 'voir!" He swings the port to, is gone. . . . Within the aluminum globule Professor Piccard was almost grudging about the occasional attention he must give to his instruments. He wanted to be at one of the nine window ports, watching the earth drop away, watching the heavens em brace him. ... He found time to jot eloquent notes of what he saw. Excerpts:* "5:34 a. m. Brilliant daylight floods all about us. My young friend Cosyns begins his experiments in connection with the cosmic rays. What are we to discover? We wonder...
...Attaboy, Jimmy! . . . You show'em! Jimmy! . . . Good luck, Jimmy! . . . Get in there and fight, Jimmy!" The friendly farewells of some 5,000 raucous New Yorkers echoed in the Grand Central Station last week as their saucy little Mayor. James John Walker, entrained for Albany. A few hostile boos were silenced by cheers and police fists. With the Mayor, as usual when he is in a tight place politically, was his plump little wife, Janet Allen Walker, carrying her white poodle Togo. "My place," she said, "is beside my husband. If the worst comes, we can go to my Iowa...
...fine. Jiminy, you look as though you'd been training for a prizefight." They motored to Albany where the vice-presidential nominee told newshawks: "I'm here to see my boss-Governor Roosevelt-and get my orders for the campaign. When I get 'em, I'll carry 'em out like a good soldier." In Manhattan the Speaker declared: "I hear that I am considered a handicap to the ticket in the East. . . . For those of you who still have some property . . . please realize I am not going to take it away. I have some myself...