Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor when I'm here, answering the phone...
...prose works: of these, Far from the Madding Crowd is the one most often recommended to people who have never read Hardy; The Return of the Native has a hard power that, in some opinions, places it above Jude the Obscure. A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Mayor of Casterbridge, both fine novels, are not quite up to the level of Hardy's greatest work...
President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State paid a visit to Chicago a day or so ago, was received with enthusiasm and shown the sights of the city, including Mayor Thompson. The reception was characterized by good feeling and easy familiarity. There was no disturbance to mar the festivities, and the welcome to the Free State President was genuine and hearty. The fact that the reception was an unqualified success is attested by the fact that, according to general agreement, more skill hats were in evidence than on any similar occasion on record, whether in honor of royalty...
...best of feeling prevailed between the Mayor and the visiting President. They left the railway station arm in arm, they drove about the city in an open car to see and to be soon. For the official reception a painting of the Free State President, decorated in red, white, blue, and green, with appropriate mottoes in Gaelic and English beneath, left the right atmosphere, keeping in the foreground the bond of sympathy that exists between Chicago and Ireland. Such was the spirit of the day. President Cosgrave is quoted to the effect, that Mayor Thompson would be an effective member...
...Thus Mayor Thompson has entertained a visiting potentate and made for good feeling between Chicago and one, at least, of the British Isles. In Chicago no bricks were thrown at President Cosgrave, for "Big Bill" had instructed his people that such procedure is not good form in receiving an honored visitor. Chicago has outstripped Boston in its cordiality to a British sympathizer; for Cosgrave is so looked upon by the Irish Republicans. His omission of a visit to Boston is generally ascribed to a fear of hostility from that direction in Boston. The situation is anomalous. But then they...