Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Saloon League has engaged in a number of shady political deals which have discredited it." Mr. Colvin, who was in Chicago arranging for the Prohibition Party's annual convention there this week, said that the Prohibition plan this year would be to back a Dry Democrat who might hamper Smith's progress in one or more States in the Solid South...
Some day the New York or Chicago police may tyrannize over honest citizens in such outrageous fashion as to move the Congress of the U. S. to investigate. Such an emergency might cause the City of New York or of Chicago to call General John Joseph Pershing to the post of Police Commissioner, in hope of restoring public confidence in policemen. Conceivably a great lawyer and statesman, such as Charles Evans Hughes, might say, in speaking of the application of a police third degree to some young woman: "Every father of an American girl sees in the affair of Miss...
Readers wondered who would succeed Publisher Duval, whether they might expect chit-chat or culture...
...Greece figured in the ballyhoo. The Floranada Club had offered to him a house with "cool rooms overlooking tropical gardens," if he would buy a plot of ground in the community. Among the questions asked Promoter Cromwell by the bankruptcy lawyers was: "Had you ever considered that the King might turn the place into a Greek restaurant...
...invention of a policeman, one James O'Donnell, who had already seen his device installed in several haunts but had never before had an opportunity of giving it a working test. Proud of its performance, Policeman O'Donnell recommended its installation in any surroundings where thieves might be expected to foregather. Insurance companies, he remarked, would lower their burglary premiums if such an instrument were located on the premises...