Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, he works industriously for the development and efficient maintenance of the Army. He helped expose graft in the Veterans Bureau which sent its director, Charles Forbes, to the penitentiary. War veterans, however, are suspicious of him because of his vote against the Bonus...
...votes cast). Said Mayor Walker: "One great issue was settled-a man can wear his own clothes. . . . My ambition is to make everybody in the city smile. . . . You ain't seen nothing yet." Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me! . . . People don't resent graft any more. . . . At least give the corpse a chance to cool. . . . Yes, I still believe in democracy...
...Hollywood Revue", at the University for four days, easily takes a place among the best screen musical shows, in spite of a somewhat tiresome manner of presentation that involves letting the curtain fall every five minutes. But this straight revue method fortunately prevents any attempt to graft the customary inane plot on the picture. The individual scenes are introduced by Jack Benny and Conrad Nagel, who for the most part are successful in making this barren role humorous. The acts themselves are excellent, with the exception of a peculiarly irritating sob-ballad by Charles King...
...association" test. Specimen Chicagoans, from steer-stabbers to brokers, were told to blurt out their immediate reactions to the examiner's key words. "Alderman" suggested the professor. "Grafter," quickly replied one citizen. Another said "crook." Another said "big cheese," another, "bay window." "City hall," posed the professor. "Politics . . . graft . . . corruption," came the spontaneous reactions...
...amazed at many things he saw just above the Rio Grande. Among them, naturally, was "Rooster" Creager who, with Boss Baker, seemed to rule the Hidalgo roost. In his subsequent history, Writer White said: "It's right there [Hidalgo County] . . . that our two most stylish American breakfast foods, GRAFT and GRAPEFRUIT . . . have been brought to their very highest and juiciest state of perfection. . . . R. B. Creager . . . for reasons best known to himself, has always encouraged the DEFEAT of his own party in Hidalgo county. . . Will the Texas Tammany boys, supported by the illiterate, non-taxpaying Mexican voters, and their loyal...