Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York stirred things up by declaring that Governor Smith stood for State-determinism, against prohibition, for temperance. Governor Smith curtly confirmed this "news." When the Resolutions Committee began its work none could guess how the drink plank would be phrased or by whom. Senators Pittman of Nevada and King of Utah, Drys both, were for conciliation through vagueness. Boss Brennan of Illinois said: "No sensible Democrat ought to worry. . . . Only one person in 25,000 thinks and only one in 50,000 reads the party platform...
...local alcohol "racket." Oliveri had lately joined the Capone "mob," deserting a rival faction. . . . That night, on the South Side, one James Reggi was murdered in an alley by revolver bullets. He had Oliveri's telephone number in his pocket. . . . Chicago's police admit that when "King" Capone leaves his underworld, jealous barons are likely to plot and shoot ambitiously...
...toward benches occupied by supporters of His Majesty's Government; but now he pivoted, like some mighty marionette, and faced His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Pointing, he designated Laborite Charles Bowerman who obliged by seconding the Conservative nomination, thus preserving the tradition that "Mr. Speaker," like the King-Emperor, is above parties...
...captain is known officially as a "King's Messenger" and popularly as a "Silver Greyhound." He is one of only 25 picked diplomatic couriers who have the right to wear as a distinctive badge a small silver coursing greyhound...
...brothers Barons; they bought and fawned their way into the society of five capitals. But they remained shrewd moneylenders, with the noses and eyes of hawks, speaking and writing an uncouth jargon of many dialects of French, German, Yiddish. Count Corti quotes one contemporary comment upon a Rothschild: "King of Jews and Jew of Kings." Another, better, he omits: "Princes in the parlor and pawnbrokers in the kitchen...