Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spokesman Hughes spoke in Buffalo and a subtler piece of political pleading has seldom been heard. The Hughes presence, dignity, prestige and good form are almost unique in U. S. public life. Few other fig- ures could have administered so impressively the prefatory rebukes to the Brown Derby which Spokesman Hughes uttered. He charged Nominee Smith with indulging in "cheap ridicule," "diatribe," "absurd tirades." "He [Nominee Smith] has stooped too low to conquer. . . . One's sense of fairness is affronted," said Mr. Hughes. "He misrepresents the position of Mr. Hoover and attempts to distort the meaning of Mr. Hoover...
When women form themselves into clubs and have rules and meetings, no one can tell what they will do. What did Mrs. Cora B. Thomas, president of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, Inc., do? She called up Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, wife of the Democratic presidential nominee, and invited her to be guest of honor at the Federation's luncheon last week. Then she wrote to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the Democratic nominee for Governor of New York, and asked her to make sure that Mrs. Smith had received the invitation...
...Well, what is Gilbert Frankau's "THIS"? Citizens of the U. S. began to form a definite opinion when they turned to page 13 and read "The Week in The States" by Willis J. Abbot, stated by Britannia to be "recognized as one of the premier political writers of America...
...greater contrabassist in all Europe than Serge Koussevitzky but he outgrew even that colossal instrument, became a conductor. Not until last year did he gather his admiring Bostonians around him and show them what he used to do with the double-bass. Boston rhapsodized but Manhattan waited to form her own judgment. In Boston King Koussevitzky can do no wrong. Neither could he last week in Manhattan. Of his first double-bass recital there, Critic Lawrence Oilman wrote in part...
...milling crowd of several hundred quickly assembled around the Harvard speaker, V. R. Booth 21., who form his position of vantage in the back of an automobile witnessed the scenes of conflict for several minutes before missiles made him seek retirement...