Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alert Taft machine got an early jump in a fast political maneuver. Ohio ballots now list candidates under the party label so that voters can vote a straight ticket by making one cross at the top of the ballot. Taft people saw the hazard in this for their candidate. The Democratic ticket would be headed by popular, thin-skinned and independent Frank John Lausche, who probably would be running for re-election as governor. Lausche's name was enough to pull thousands of straight party votes so that any Tom, Dick or Joe, running as a Democratic candidate...
...years of pursuing the fast buck around the national capital, weedy Little John Maragon never seemed to be getting anywhere. He was an anxious glad-hander of big men, a hanger-on at the White House, a willing errand-runner and a great fellow for cadging free rides in official trains and limousines. But he lived in a middlebrow house in the suburbs, moaned about the cost of groceries, and looked like a part-time shoe clerk. Most of the capital was inclined to agree when his fellow countryman, Greek-born Promoter William G. Helis, said...
...highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue (and Democratic political boss) Victor Salazar, "the second-floor governor"-is a political byword in the state. Chunky, fast-moving Will Harrison does his own legwork...
...highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue (and Democratic political boss) Victor Salazar, "the second-floor governor"-is a political byword in the state. Chunky, fast-moving Will Harrison does his own legwork...
Sorrowful Jones. Bob Hope in a fast-paced spoof of a Damon Runyon yarn (TIME, June...