Word: falling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought that Nominee Hoover was going to carry "every State in the Union except Louisiana, Mississippi. Georgia and South Carolina" (The Literary Digest's straw vote predicted that Nominee Hoover would carry Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina). He asked Mr. Raskob to get these States to ''fall in line" and "make it unanimous...
...Alfred E. Smith, from present indications, will receive a clear majority of both the popular and electoral votes to be cast this fall. No such jugglery as followed and set aside the elections of 1868 and 1876 can prevail...
Take Me Home. When a comedy is weak there are three things a director can do to make it better: 1) keep the star changing her costumes; 2) have her fall down a lot; 3) hire a funny subtitle writer. In this routine picture of a chorus girl in love with a country boy, Bebe Daniels gets no mud on her clothes although all other devices for bolstering the plot are liberally used. Onetime chorine Lilyan Tashman, as the musical comedy star who leads Rube Neil Hamilton to her Fifth Avenue house, acts better than Miss Daniels...
...Millbrook, at Onwentsia and Milwaukee, the riders trot through the dark mists of dawn to gather, as light breaks, at a country gate or a cross roads between fields fenced with wood. Kids on stumpy ponies and millionaires slithering upon their priceless hunters, will go over the hedges, fall, or be in at the death and then jog back to breakfast, late in the autumn mornings...
...Every year, in the U. S. Educational world there is a riot, usually several riots. In New Haven's Hotel Taft, Wesleyan Freshmen and Sophomores clashed in the year's first riot. The Sophomores were holding their annual Fall banquet. No Freshmen were invited. Slighted, they sent a messenger to the Sophomores demanding admittance. The Sophomores removed the messenger's pants, sent him into the hotel lobby, sat down to their banquet. The Freshmen charged. Eggs destined for food became missiles. While some of the Freshmen fought, others stole and ate the Sophomores' food. Resignedly...