Word: lick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excellent golf and rides daily. He arrives at his office at 9:05, leaves at 4:55. At the Burlingame station his horse and groom await him. He smokes $1 cigars, occasionally takes a cocktail. Outside interests include politics (he is a Republican National Committeeman). University of California and Lick Observatory, to which he has quietly made large gifts. He weighs 180 pounds, stands 5 ft. 8 in., rounds out an impression of correct fastidiousness with an evenly white, severely trimmed mustache and goatee...
...Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when he was 32, although Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate for President, lived in Indianapolis. With one hand Taggart built up a large hotel enterprise, acquired French Lick Springs. With the other hand he ran politics. He managed the campaign of Alton Brooks Parker for President in 1904. In 1912 he started the swing to Wilson in the Baltimore convention and got Indiana's Thomas R. Marshall named for Vice President. In 1916 a governor whom he elected...
Died. Thomas Taggart, 72, of French Lick, Ind., longtime Democratic boss; of stomach trouble; in Indianapolis...
...Chinook was named for a wind-the dry warm northwesterly wind that is said to moderate the climate and "lick up" the snow from cold mountain slopes...
...adjudged the match, fair and official though it was, more a football game than a wrestling bout. Wrestler Sonnenberg took up professional wrestling without premeditation. One night last year in Boston, after watching two grunters struggle, Sonnenberg said: "I could take those two bums in the ring now and lick both of 'em without getting up a sweat." Said Promoter Cy Mitchell...