Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus it was that, in the first case by good management, in the second by accident, the two strongest candidates were unanimously placed on the Republican ticket, a political believe-it-or-not. There were those who still thought that eloquent Mr. Vandenberg would have made a better first mate for colorless Mr. Landon. Fact remained that, excepting the Landonites, no one had worked so hard, nor got up so much steam and sympathy, as Colonel Knox & friends. The impetus of their bloc could now be merged intact with the Landon movement...
Political songs and torchlight parades raged throughout the 19th Century. Peak came with the Log Cabin-Hard Cider campaign (1840) conducted by the Whigs in behalf of General William H. Harrison, hero of Tippecanoe, and his running-mate, John Tyler. Opponent was Democrat Martin Van Buren of New York, who prompted the Whigs to sing...
...many rumors about the motive of Girl Pat's wild escapade were last week laid by Harry Stone, her onetime mate, who was left behind in the Dakar Hospital. Said he: "When we left Grimsby, it was to fish. But Skipper Osborne had plans of his own. He was going to sell the boat in some foreign port and divide the proceeds with the crew. . . . We had no charts-only a child's atlas we'd bought at Woolworth's. . . . I was ill. In Dakar . . . they had to leave me behind...
...again. Last week they wallowed into Dakar, French Senegal, for supplies. The French port authorities debated nabbing her but decided to wait for definite orders. Before these came, Girl Pat slipped out of the harbor in the teeth of a gale. Behind her in the hospital she left her mate, who said nothing...
...huge and famed brood-Brood X-of periodical cicadas known scientifically as Tibicina septendecim and popularly as "17-year-locusts." The entomologist said that the insects would do little or no harm to flowers and shrubs, would make a fearful racket later on when they began to mate. Meanwhile there was nothing to do. If the gardener insisted on keeping the invaders away from his flowers, he could spread mosquito netting over the beds. Periodical cicadas are not locusts at all. When pious New England pioneers found them in enormous numbers, they thought of the locust plagues of the Bible...