Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presidential candidacy. Later in the week he issued a statement which the politically-wise took none too seriously: "I am not a candidate for President .... Purely speculative and wholly false insinuations about any consideration which I am giving to national candidacy. . . . This [Governorship of New York] is a man's-sized job which takes all my time...
...Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, Mayor Walker's voluble predecessor, now an independent candidate for reelection, put in wide circulation an envelope inscribed: "Voter-Who killed Rothstein and Marlow?" A card inside replied: "Send Hylan back to City Hall. Send Enright back to Police Headquarters. They may find the man...
...week to be bartering pails of milk for pints of water. Half round the world in Santiago de Cuba there were street fights and stabbings when the water-carts passed. Prolonged drought was parching many lands, but rural England and Cuba seemed to suffer most. Scientists recalled that, although man can go without food for two months and live, without water he shrivels and dies in from six days...
This business involves facts and figures embracing what the machine does to men. At the end Author Chase balances the machine's effects good, bad and indifferent, and from the whole account concludes: "Engines have been enslaved by man...
Worst danger: any time in the future, machines may escape man's "poor discipline" in a two-hour mechanized warfare in which, according to Author Chase, all the cities of the world will wipe out one another...