Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down in Oliver Street, where Alfred E. Smith came from, they took the opportunity to vote for a home boy, 610 to 66. It may also have comforted him to know that he had received more actual votes than any man who had ever previously run for President. If his total popular vote should exceed 18,000,000, it would be double John W. Davis' vote in 1924. And most of this he could rightfully attribute to himself rather than to the power of his party or the shrewdness of campaign managers...
Thus, the 71st Senate may contain (barring death) 56 Republicans, 38 Democrats, as well as the lone Farmer-Laborite Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, who was reelected. Also, one vacancy (Vare...
...Wisconsin, a great manufacturer (plumbing), Walter J. Kohler, was elected Governor. This was a certainty after he had won in the primaries against the traditional La Follette power. Any Governor in a politically doubtful State may become nationally conspicuous-and such a fate was freely predicted for this Business-man-in-politics...
Simplicity and a superb vitality have made Jeritza. She wanted to be a prima donna. She is a prima donna and nothing interferes. She sings twice a week at the Metropolitan, their highest salaried singer. She rehearses. She sleeps. Other singers may ail. Jeritza has never missed a performance. Her public (she used to call it pooblic) must not be disappointed, and to bear out the principle she sang a concert once in Brooklyn on one foot, the other so badly sprained she had to be carried on the stage and propped against the piano. Yet trembling with fatigue when...
...Indian helping the other poor Indians, ground down by Spain in South America. He flings that dagger through the window, is chased by those bloodhounds, jumps over that wall, snatches that bride at the altar onto his horse and, as they approach the leap over the ravine, says, "It may mean-Death. . . ." at which she answers, "Death . . . with you. . . ." Spectators lingered in the hope that at some point in this nonsensical fairbanking Mr. Talmadge would fight a duel to death with his double and that they would both...