Word: fighters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stuart was a hard fighter and disciplinarian, but he was also ''a social type, loving people, laughing much, leading out in song. He had a rich and golden voice. He was fond of charades and wrote execrable poetry, affected anagrams. There was never any sadness where he was." Wherever Stuart went he took Trooper Sweeny, onetime minstrel, to play the banjo. But he never touched liquor and he stopped all Saturday dances at midnight, for he "had serious ideas about Sunday." During the long, hopeless war (which he would never admit was hopeless) he saw his young wife...
Milt Gross of the American portrayed the imaginary effect on Brooklyn Jewish life of the hero's return: "Hm, you didn't hoid Meester Feitelbaum from Seedney Frenklin wot he fight witt bools. ... So it geeves chirrs de pipple wot it guzz in wodeweel de bool-fighter wot he bicomes yat from tsigarattes in de papers a in-duster. So Isidor (SMACK) ... you be batter a Seedney Frenklin und dunt gatting on de reputt codd a D yat in bool-fighting maybe...
...Congress: He is known as an independent voter, a violent partisan, a dogged fighter, the Senate's wealthiest member. He is most famed for his fiscal feud with Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. He did not like the 1924 tax bill, wrote the Secretary so, was infuriated by a snippy reply from a Department subordinate. He put through the Senate a resolution to investigate the Bureau of Internal Revenue. This Bureau retaliated by reopening an old tax case against him and all minority Ford stockholders who had sold their shares. The Bureau charged the Senator owed...
...door, chatted with him for a moment. A few of the clerks looked up and watched. It was well known that there was tension between the vice president and his superior. And everyone knew that neither was a man to give in. President Byers was obviously a fighter. If his appearance did not tell you that at once, his record did. Labor unions had fought him in vain; aggressiveness had marked his long rise from the position of assistant engineer on the Pennsylvania...
...Idealism and Service in him?" The Author. Walter Boughton Pitkin, 52, is himself no mean achiever. At 14 he herded cattle, delivered packages for a Detroit drygoods store, then worked on a school census to get money for college, where he paid his way by training a prize fighter, selling class canes, newspaper work. After college he studied languages and psychology in Europe. Onetime U. S. Managing Editor of Encyclopedia Britannica, he is professor of journalism at Co lumbia University, is famed among editors for his consultant ability in reviving mori bund magazines. Other books: The Psy chology of Happiness...