Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rural-Democrat had waited for a McAdoodle. Finally, last week, 72 hours before the election, it came: "I am absolutely opposed to Governor Smith's position on Prohibition and the 18th Amendment, but I shall preserve my party allegiance." That was the telegram which Democrat William Gibbs McAdoo sent to two Georgia newspaper editors who had queried him. Was it too late, or didn't it matter...
Foolish the army which fires all its ammunition at the beginning of a battle. Wise the political party which saves up until the eve of election some important announcements, testimonials, recruits. Last week, William Gibbs McAdoo, unreconciled Wilsonian Democrat, commended the prize offered by Motor-maker William Crapo Durant for a plan to enforce Prohibition. Everyone knew, of course, that Mr. McAdoo is as dry as a cactus. The question was: did this minor McAdoodling portend a major McAdoodle, an out-and-out repudiation of the Brown Derby? Perhaps, and perhaps there are other hold-offs, more or less strategically...
...issue of August 20 states that ... McAdoo got himself up in the red and black velvet of a caballero and up onto a prancing-mare. Mare and McAdoo were chief prancers ..." and prints a picture signed by Wide World...
Apropos of that caballero and equestrian tycoon, William Gibbs McAdoo, recently depicted with Mexican accoutrements en grande tenue, and set forth as mounting, "up onto a prancing mare," (TIME, Aug. 20), kindly permit the following correction; -"Hell! that aint no mare...
TIME'S political correspondent, no horseman, was misled; but is now able to state definitely that Mr. McAdoo was mounted upon Joaquin, an animal owned by Dwight Murphy of Santa Barbara. Joaquin, no mare, is a gelding...