Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taking bribes, the charges he had already expressed to Judge Landis. The baseball commissioner listened with a foxlike expression. He had on a wing collar and he chewed a derelict cigar. Sometimes he glanced at a figure lolling obscurely in the back of the room. It was Will Rogers, Mayor of Beverly Hills, who refused to sit in a more conspicuous place because "he had been able to keep out of this thing so far." When Risberg got through, the accused players spent four hours denying everything he had said about them. It was true, they said, that the White...
...would be "a great ad" for anyone. It became known through other sources, however, that President Coolidge and King George did not converse. Publisher Ochs of the New York Times let it be known that he was first private speaker, with Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the London Times. Mayor Walker of New York said he talked to Lord Mayor Sir Rowland Blades of London. There was little enough secrecy about the service, at that According to the London Daily Mail clever radio engineers, amateur and professional, were able to listen in upon the talks as far away as South Africa...
...Strakosch, clever artist, to return to Vienna disguised as a Frenchman, ignite the discontent of land-poor landlords, disseminate the idea that with the Jews happiness had been exiled, overthrow the Government, get the ban repealed, regain his Christian fiancée and be hailed by the populace and mayor of Vienna as "beloved...
...same thing. The trouble with him is that he's spoiled. Ever since that time when he refused his secretary a lily cup out of pure economy he's been no true son of Vermont, for we're not like that (cheers), honestly we're not. The mayor of my town has two suits of winter underwear--one for summer...
...changes being undergone in this country by our theory of democracy. The complete absence of a party of opposition, increasing apathy in the ranks of stolid citizenry, the imminent danger of a permanent one-party rule are symptoms of the same sickness as that of which political invective died. Mayor Rogers may rally other joyous wits and fearless spirits to his cause. The future may have an Ariemus Ward, a Josh Billings, a Mr. Dooley yet unborn. It is certainly to be hoped that this is true. For not only is the cool, sour edge of satire a keen tool...