Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declaration for Prosperity for Labor, the Democratic Nominee' did not fail to point out that automobile production in 1936 promised to be more than three-and-one-half times that of 1932, to observe of Federal! spending: "Literally, the music went round and round and round and a lot of it came out right here in Detroit...
Virtually everything else Nominee Roosevelt said in some 40 speeches in seven states last week was repetition and embroidery. Invading Nominee Landon's home-ground, he reminded cheering Kansans of the rise in wheat prices since 1932, observed that during his previous campaign tour there had been a lot of tourists passing through on freight cars while now they were riding in Pullmans. At Wichita he rapped tactfully at Governor Landon's balanced budget by declaring: "I do not believe that Kansas, any more than any other state, would have pulled through the difficult problems of the past...
Members of the Orr School are the Philadelphia Inquirer's one-legged, cigar-chewing Hugh Hutton, whose Brain Truster is more ominously idiotic than Hearstling Swinnerton's, and the Los Angeles Times's young Bruce Russell, whose Franklin Roosevelt is the ugliest of the lot...
Only less praiseworthy than the desire of wrestling promoters to exploit monsters is the willingness of monsters to have themselves exploited. No athlete, Levia than Levy is actually a victim of both elephantiasis and a weak heart. He runs a Boston parking lot, works intermittently in circuses, has so much appetite and so little fastidiousness that he eats peanuts in the shells. When wrestling, Leviathan Levy wears a tire tube for a belt. Off his feet, he requires four men to stand him up again. Opponents find him formidable be cause he is too big to hold, too slippery...
Caught in the no-man's land between the two political parties now starting their death struggle barrage, the lot of the average broadcasting company is not a happy one. The Columbia system singed its fingers badly Saturday when it cut from the air Senator Vandenburgh's "debate" against Mr. Roosevelt's recorded voice, simply on a technicality. But despite the clamor of censorship, the company's stand appears well founded. For who would dare to speak on the radio if his words might at any time thereafter be trumpeted throughout the nation and knocked silly by a clever political...