Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate. Big, slow-spoken, slow-witted, substantial, Congressman Hawley is a high protectionist to the bone. Only too proud is he to have his name go down to posterity on the 1930 Tariff Act. In last week's House contest he personified the orthodox high tariff Republican ideal. Against him were arrayed insurgent Republicans and low-tariff Democrats, leaderless through the absence of Texas' Congressman John Nance Garner, minority chief, who was ill with influenza...
...Ladies' Aid, was arrested for sending obscene matter through the mails. The obscene matter consisted of letters which Lette Jourdin wrote and addressed to herself. Her purpose in writing these letters, she confessed, was to incriminate Sheriff Floyd Brower whom she selected two years ago as her "ideal man." So obscene were Lette Jourdin's letters that police refused to let reporters read them...
Long have Drys been annoyed by glib references to the Canadian liquor sale system as an ideal solution of the problem of Prohibition. Again and again was the House Judiciary Committee at its hearings on null of the 18th Amendment besought by Wet witnesses to observe the virtues of what Canada has done...
...mean touchstone of their dramatic merit on their first night in a city; and they passed the difficult test with ease. Starless they are not, in spite of the critics' forecasts: rather there is an abundance of actors of outstanding ability, a group that comes somewhere near to the ideal of an all-star cast that is so often advertised and so rarely approached...
...last winter resigned as president of Youngstown to become chairman. Until last week his word was sufficient to sway the company, was able to block a merger with Bethlehem two years ago. Last week he at first refused to comment on the proposed merger, but finally declared it "ideal," although last December he was quoted as favorable to a merger with Republic. Even the combination of Grace and Campbell did not, however, seem to concern the third figure, Cyrus Stephen Eaton...