Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Armies. Battalions of warriors streamed last week toward the tariff battle field in the U. S. Senate. Warriors bearing the scar of a hundred elections came in troops, their ammunition trains lumbered up behind them. Their lobbyist commissary workers dragged to the field the impedimenta of battle...
...army) and Major-General David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, spokesman of Secretary Mellon, labored incessantly to bring their forces stout-hearted to the fray, casting side glances at stragglers (those Republicans who every now and then hinted some doubt as to the sacredness of their cause). Across the aisle, Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina urged on the troops of low-tariff-for-the-consumers. Behind him strode the body of the Democrats and their allies, Republican irregulars trooping after General Borah (of Idaho). This army too had its stragglers, Democrats here and there greedy for tariff spoils...
Harangues. First, however, the leaders of the hosts paused to harangue their followers and enemies. Field Marshal Simmons leaped upon the breastworks and spoke first, for three hours. He charged the tariff bill with putting useless and ineffective duties on farm products many of which are not imported at all, with taxing, exorbitantly, the things the farmer buys, with taxing necessities of the public more than the luxuries of the rich, with increasing duties for industries already prosperous, with giving the President too much discretion to change tariffs under the flexible provision. Was it a farmers' tariff, he asked...
...harangues of the two leaders took the greater part of a whole day. The next day Field Marshal Simmons, finding that he had turned two pages of his speech together (by accident), brought out the lost page and read it to his eager followers. Then, not to omit any element of a proper epic, Chief of Staff Pat Harrison leapt upon the Democratic parapet and reviled the leaders of the enemy. Said...
...circus of any considerable size. American Circus Corp. was the management company for Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks and Al G. Barnes circuses. In absorbing American Circus Corp.. Mr. Ringling in one all-embracing gesture eliminated competition in a manner which in almost any other field would have excited public clamor and governmental disapproval. But a circus is not a necessity of life and there is a certain justice in the fact that there now undoubtedly exists that "Greatest Show on Earth," as which every circus has billed itself from the time when the first tent rose...