Word: gumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tribune and the Hearst-owned Herald and Examiner.* In a circulation war which culminated in the distribution of nearly $1,000,000 worth of "lucky number" coupons, both newspapers distinguished themselves in bad taste and the Tribune achieved a domination which has never since been threatened. Andy & Min Gump became world figures and the Tribune Tower was built (Col. McCormick chose the site and Capt. Patterson suggested the $100,000 contest for an architectural design). This April, the Tribune won another great victory when it led the attack that smashed the Thompson-Small-Crowe-Smith machine in the Republican primaries...
Through a long afternoon filled with soporific technicalities that occasionally snorted into colorful blasphemy, the whiskered "stool pigeon of King George" tilted far back in his swivel chair, read the Chicago Tribune comic strip about Andrew Gump, Minerva Gump, etc., etc. Above the edge of the newspaper, courtroom idlers could see Mr. McAndrew's iron grey hair. Occasionally he put the newspaper down and chuckled. Then the idlers noted his white whiskers well tinged with red, his high color, his eyebrows that laid a direct black line across his forehead...
...creatures become more famous than himself. What voter would be moved by hearing that one Sidney Smith had said thus and so about an election? Yet a recent election was visibly affected, in Texas and other states, when machine-bucking political youngsters stumped the hamlets in behalf of Andy Gump for U. S. Senator...
...Sidney Smith, Gump progenitor, is a speed fan (automobiles...
...What, besides Mrs. Gump, is the name of Andy Gump's wife...