Word: lone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Former Governor Allen (Republican) of Kansas, whose child the Industrial Court is, was swept out of office at the last election, although all the rest of his ticket was elected. Governor Davis, who made opposition to the Industrial Court one of the chief issues of his campaign, was the lone Democrat elected. In spite of his election. Governor Davis could not abolish the Court- the legislature was entirely in the hands of his opponents. Now the Supreme Court has shorn the Industrial Court of much of its power, Governor Davis thinks the opportune moment has come. He announced that...
Swinnerton's ambition has taken him into art as a sideline and he has recently exhibited a painting in the spring exhibition of the Salons of America. This painting is called His Last Trail. It represented a lone Indian, unidealized and with a wealth of realistic atmosphere, who has come to the end of his wanderings. Peculiar reddish tints predominate in the painting, which represents the result of a recent trip to Arizona by the Hearst cartoonist...
...accordance with the long standing custom of the Workshop, the public presentation of "Catskill Dutch to Her" in February being a lone exception, only the guests of the Workshop will be admitted to the audience...
...JERSEY: Governor Silzer is a lone Democrat faced by a Legislature of Republicans. He is called the "veto-governor" because of the large number of bills which he vetoed during the last session of the Legislature. Now a collection of his vetoes has been published. They are marked by plain speaking and a clear legal mind, and Democrats claim that, although 27 bills became law despite his objection, this collection of vetoes shows that he won a " moral victory...
...plot is perfectly adequate, and turns on the repeated attempts of a man to get started on a lone expedition to the heart of Africa after gold. He gets the key to the gold-mine, and incidentally to the address of the heroine, from the money-belt of a dead Englishman whom he runs across in the jungle. First he gambles away his money, then gets blown up and severely injured in a mine in Johannesburg, and finally falls in love and gets married...