Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only new woman to gain admission to Congress was Effie Gene Locke Wingo, widow of Representative Otis Theodore Wingo, Arkansas Democrat, who died during the campaign. As a double mark of chivalry both parties gave Widow Wingo their nominations...
Illinois. Most spectacular of Democratic senatorial victories throughout the land occurred when James Hamilton Lewis roundly defeated Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick's ambition to be the first woman elected to the Senate. Senator-elect Lewis, ever the begloved, bewhiskered, bowing gallant, had made a Wet, witty campaign against Mark Hanna's Prohibition-weasling daughter. He had convulsed his audiences with mock embarrassment at being "pursued by two lovely ladies" (Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill was a Dry independent also-ran), with references to Mrs. McCormick's attempt to be a "dripping Venus rising from the sea of Chicago." Even...
...spent a thoughtful life among books (his tasks having included editing Ivanhoe and Travels with a Donkey), Dr. Cross was much better prepared to receive the shock, so pleasant to him, than were most other Connecticut citizens. Few of the scores of thousands of voters who poured forth to mark ballots for him had any real idea he could win from Boss Roraback's man, Lieut. Governor Ernest E. Rogers. In August the State had looked pretty Democratic ? especially the big cities like Bridgeport and New Haven and some of the little ones like Danbury. But by the opening...
...Olga Mead, widow of the late great Architect William Rutherford Mead (McKim, Mead & White) gave Benito Mussolini 10,000 lire ($500) in gratitude for his aid in transporting the body of her husband to Rome for burial. Cyril Clemens, cousin of Mark Twain and president of the Mark Twain Society of Webster Groves, Mo., gave him as token of esteem the society's gold medal, inscribed: Mussolini-Great Educator...
...designs supplied by British and American colonial buyers. The porcelain was sometimes carried in the ships of the Dutch East India Company to Amsterdam. Some of the early British orders were taken and delivered by the firm of Baker & Allen of Lowestoft, who stamped the porcelain with their own mark, hence the name...