Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actor and orator, by trade a seller of fishes in the Fulton Fish Market, when one day in 1896 "Big Tom" Foley, Tammany chieftain, noticed a political gleam in his eyes. Alfred progressed-clerk in the commissioner's office, legislator, speaker of the Assembly, governor, presidential aspirant. The lower East Side sang "The Sidewalks of New York"; mothers kissed smudgy-faced ragamuffins who wanted to be "Al" Smiths when they grew up. Now Governor Smith is running for a fourth term on an out-and-out Wet platform, and Wall Street is betting five to two that he will...
...course, Mr. Mills might return from the opera some evening, take off his top hat and dress coat, roll up his sleeves, and write a song that would surge above the glamor of "The Sidewalks of New York." But down on the lower East Side the old grind organs still throb and Tammany Hall politicians light cigars, lean back in squeaky chairs, smile at one another, say: "He cannot...
...adjective in the Batavia despatch -a "complete" skull the message had said. That meant that if the upper portion should prove similar to the Dubois fragment, science could determine without aid of theory the degree of relationship between pithecanthropus and man and ape from the new skull's lower jaw, aural cavities and spinal connection...
Wrathful, beside themselves, the officers summoned the Assen Barracks Guard, ordered an admonitory volley fired in the air above the mutineers. They, heedless, continued their potations. The guard trained their rifles lower, fired, killed a non-commissioned officer who had taken no part in the mutiny, sobered the mutineers into obedience...
...life that word has been applied to William Hanford Edwards. He weighs 300 pounds. He can get into a lower berth but not behind the wheel of an automobile. He always sits on the aisle at the theatre. He can use ready-made handerchiefs. He once saved the life of onetime (1910-13) Mayor William G. Gaynor of New York. He is said to have been the fastest big man that ever played football at Princeton...