Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike the last time the party invaded Chicago to nominate Warren Gamaliel Harding after a midnight meeting in the Blackstone Hotel, there were no bustling headquarters of rival aspirants for candidacy. Onetime Senator Joseph I. France of Maryland kept a lone vigil with a pair of stenographers in a suite at the Congress, ridiculously hopeful of a boon which the party leaders downstairs on the mezzanine floor had not the slightest intention of bestowing upon him. Marshall Field & Co. displayed a collection of small elephants. Loop district street lights were decorated with the party symbol on bunting. But throughout...
Confidence- No President ever sat in the White House and waited for renomination with more complete confidence than Herbert Hoover. Of the 1,154 convention votes his managers counted on his getting more than a thousand on the first ballot- enough to renominate him practically by acclamation. His lone opponent, Dr. Jo- seph Irwin France, onetime Senator from Maryland, had under definite pledge only a ridiculous...
This is, of course, no romantic, bourgeois melodrama. Love interest is repressed to the lone, lorn, renegade Turkmaiden, who cooks and simpers for our heroes. Humor, in the enlightened sense of the word, is lacking, but good shots of Young Communists having a real side-splitting cachinnation excite a sympathetic titter in the audience. Unless the film has been miserably cut, it is filled with inexcusably bewildering digressions: the Playgoer is still puzzling over the meaning of storm upon storm, hands beating the harem door, the profusion of dead camels,--a species reputedly drought-proof,--and many prayers to Allah...
Five members of the University team, two other students, and one lone outsider, J. B. Lloyd of the Cambridge School, completed the unusually small field...
...fate of a Last Survivor, the lone lingering member of a species. Mateless, childless, friendless, he can only sit and brood upon the fate that has left him in a world whence all his kind has vanished. Such a bitter fate is that of the heath-cock of Martha's Vineyard. Once his kind filled the woods from Maine to Virginia, but hunters' guns reduced their numbers to a single flock which found refuge on Martha's Vineyard. Forest fires decimated the flock until in 1927 there remained only eleven heath cocks, two heath hens. Next year...