Word: handed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this vote proved two things; 1) The Hoover 1928 victory in four Southern States carried no weight in the Senate where Democrats (with two exceptions) joined solidly against him and for the Debenture Plan; 2) The nine-year coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans still held a whip hand over major legislation, despite the G. O. P.'s paper majority of 17 votes...
...Charles F. Kerrigan, his able "assistant." This onetime newsgatherer absorbs all the technicalities of municipal government, digests heavy reports, arranges backstage decisions, plants in the alert trial-lawyer mind of the Mayor the few essential facts on which to base his official acts. The Mayor's secretary, Charles Hand, another newsgatherer, serves chiefly as the Walker stage-manager for social and political events...
...court chamberlain and court steward, bowing low before Majesty. Chamberlain and steward backed into the room. Entered the Queen of England, ablaze with diamonds, wearing a "white and gold gown with an overdress of changeable pastel shades," as fashion technicians described it. Holding her firmly by the hand was scarlet-coated Edward of Wales, his uniform collar embroidered with the wild onion of the Welsh Guards. Prince Edward led his mother to the single throne on the dais, bowed, took his place in the brilliant family circle of his brothers, his sister, his uncles and his aunts...
...Thimblerig = the Shell Game, with three thimble-like cups, a pea, a sleight-of-hand, a gullible bettor...
...account of Berlin's May Day, it was the Social Democrats in the German Government who precipitated the police attack, not the Communists who invited it. The Social Democrats, boasted Bomb Boy Zinoviev, fear that the Communist Party is growing in Germany, fear it will get out of hand...