Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever heard of Cox. This convention has got to nominate Curtis and is going to nominate him or I shall know the reason why! Let me warn you now, Senator, you can tell the Hoover crowd that Curtis has got to be nominated to keep the western states in line and if anybody else is put up I shall go before the convention and present his name and make a fight for it, and I think I can put him across...
George Wigglesworth: Sixth in an unbroken line of Harvard men, who in college were high scholars and in private station have devoted their lives to the public good. A rare spirit and a great gentleman...
...business of marketing musical instruments, from morning to noon and to amuse themselves throughout the rest of the day. Some of their frivolities were to be of a conventional nature. They were instructed thus-"As to entertainment, DON'T FORGET Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, in line ... for president, will be principal speaker at the annual banquet. You will have the pleasure of hearing Professor John Erskine, president of the Juilliard School of Music . . . distinguished author of The Private Life of Helen of Troy...
...Given a training in the rudiments of good English and deprived of her more erotically minded heroines she should be able to turn out something quite amusing in the way of an acid commentary of life as it is lived by the landed gentry south of the Mason Dixon line. Many of her observations in "Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers" are shrewd, tart, and occasionally funny. But her quips, weighted as they are beneath a style which apparently goes back to Caedmon and Cynewulf for its model, have a difficult struggle to survive. They decorate but unfortunately do not obliterate...
...will retire to the country side to take a few secret lessons from the champion fly-caster of the world. There is even a possibility that the bent pin and the tin can of worms may be called into play at the strategical moment to swing the farmers into line...