Word: morasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florida. But Chairman Huston of Chattanooga, Tenn., theoretically representative of the Southern wing of the G. O. P., primarily selected to steer the President successfully through the morass of the G. O. P., South, was unable to save President Hoover from stumbling into a swampy situation in Florida. Last week these facts emerged...
...Burke of Pittsburgh, Charles Evans Hughes of New York. The first was a prayerful appeal to U. S. womanhood. The second was an awesome exegesis of the Coolidge message. The third was a smashing summary designed to picture Republicans on a peak of noble humanitarianism, the Democrats in a morass of "clamor," "clap trap" and "calumny" engaged in a "shindig...
...lies Lake Okeechobee in the tangled Everglades. It is 45 miles long. The surrounding country is lower than the lake and is protected by dikes. There are hundreds of small farms, sugar cane fields, blackamoor shacks. During the hurricane Lake Okeechobee burst the dikes. The rich land became a morass; in certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout the whole region...
...Tremont Temple. Reverend William E. Biederwolf accused the colleges of having too may "pallid prophets who have arisen to call upon our youth in the name of intellectual independence prophets of guesses and suppositions and unproved hypotheses who are leading our youth into a mental jungle and a moral morass...
...Idaho in 1905-07, when the state was worried about the I. W. W. He lacks the discrimination of his statesmanlike colleague but what he sees within a few feet of his nose, he sees clearly, and names boldly. Thus, coming upon evidences of radicalism in the Pennsylvania morass, he roared: "We must choke the I. W. W. to death or see the gutters of our streets run knee-deep in blood." And in his series for the Pittsburgh Press-for which he accepted no pay-he wrote: "There would be little left if that force were allowed to Russianize...