Word: licked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found the stripling all a-blubber, trying to warm his back against the outside of a stockyard store. Reporters nagged him. Muttered he: "Dick's so gentle he wouldn't hurt anybody. But he knew me best, and every time I went near him he tried to lick my face...
...Writing in Collier's a fortnight ago about the meeting last winter at French Lick, Ind., where the Scripps-Howard editors voted unanimously to support Hoover, Chairman Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard board of directors said: "The average age of the 26 men was just a trifle over 30 years...
...United Press, were sadly crooked. A Johanna Smith soliloquy, delivered aboard her at 3 a. m. by Louis Wolheim, famed as hard-boiled "Captain Flagg" in What Price Glory? and now a cinemactor, was reported as follows: "The roulette is bad, the poker, twenty-one and chuck-a-lick worse, but the prize albatross these guys hang around a neck is at the craps table. A game of chance...
...acting on deathbed instructions from Sullivan) who pushed aside McAdoo and forced the nomination of Cox at the Democratic convention in 1920. The same forces compromised on John W. Davis in 1924, when the Smith movement failed. Mr. Taggart is now in ill health and resides quietly at French Lick, Ind., playing croquet with his grandchildren...
...Seiberling, was running on the opposing Willis slate. Charles W. telephoned Frank A., who was in Florida at the time. "Stick to your guns," he said. Older Brother answered Younger Brother: "Stick to your guns, too, Charlie." To friends, Older Brother said: "It hasn't been necessary to lick Charlie for 25 years, but if I have to do it again I guess I probably can." Then, Charles W. Seiberling's son died. The brothers did not campaign actively. Hooverizers ran the younger brother to victory over his elder in all four counties of their district...