Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arguments existed as to who would fire No. 21, the honor went to George P. Becker, construction superintendent of the F. S. Payne (elevator) Co. of Cambridge, Mass., whose hobby is stoking locomotives...
...made to keep the course right up to date in the latest methods of warfare. Poison gas protection with reference to big cities should be carefully studied, defense agaisnt aerial attack and long range guns should also be included, as well as the military administration of hygienic measures against mass bacterial infection. Military Science should be studied with the future in view instead of the past...
...some of the more violent observers have said, President Roosevelt intends this election to be America's last, he may be on the right track after all. Mass production left its mark on campaigning long ago, and the one just past looked even more like the others than Governor Landon looked like Warren Harding...
There will be lots of other changes if Roosevelt sets up a dictatorship. The seven voters of a place called Millsfield, New Hampshire, won't have to get out of bed in the middle of the night to vote five-to-two for Landon and beat New Ashford, Mass., as the first precinct to be heard from. Nor will there be that phony voting machine in Troy, New York, which since time immemorial has broken down at ten o'clock election morning to show in all its nakedness twelve Republican and eighty-four Democratic votes. There...
...Aftermath. Storming jubilantly out of the Stadium as cold grey dusk comes on, warm warm warm with happiness. A tie score and hurrah hurrah for our side. Cocktails in a little apartment on Mass Avenue that looks over roofs and towers to the river. Shouting outside, cheers, crescendoes of happy animal noises. A little fire, just right, in the fireplace, five good friends who are very vary good friends before the cocktails are through...