Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Wasservogel pondered: She is past the age of consent. If she wants to marry this man, she has a right to do so. "Of course," he said to glowering Mr. Herrick, "she ought to listen to your advice. You may have very good reasons for opposing your daughter's marriage...
Hastily Justice Wasservogel said: "I don't think it will be necessary at all," worked out an agreement: 1) that Mr. Lowther would not attempt to see Miss Herrick for ten days; 2) that, after this period of abstinence, the parents would interpose no obstacle to their courtship and marriage. When defeated Mr. Herrick tried to make one last angry statement, Justice Wasservogel shut him off, pronounced the dread sentence that the fathers of daughters everywhere fear most to hear: "This man," said he, "may become your son-in-law, and you want to be on the best...
...Cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo praised Franklin Roosevelt to the 1940 skies, demanded a third term for him. Mr. McAdoo's eulogy (he is the New Deal beneficiary of a $25,000 job as head of the American President Lines-second highest paid Government post) roused no ripple of surprise in Washington...
...Frank McHale, McNutt's organizer, could mark off another point reached in the McNutt campaign for the Presidency, which "Oomph Paul" began when he was seven years old. Apparently Mr. McHale had charted last week as "Be-Kind-To-Liberals-Week," for in seven days Mr. McNutt spoke in Lakeland, Fla., in Washington (to the pinko National Lawyers Guild), and to the Janizariat at the Cosmos-each time advocating broad-based, New Deal reform views...
Next campaign step was to un-prettify handsome, snow-crested Mr. McNutt. Mr. McHale ordered new pictures-stern-visaged photos to de-emphasize the platinum hair, the toothpaste smile. With the rest of his candidate's person Mr. McHale was well enough satisfied, and Paul McNutt continued to go about with baggy, overlong pants draping his slightly bowed legs, unshined shoes on his slightly pigeon-toed feet-an appearance politically pleasing to an electorate which traditionally distrusts the too-snappy dresser...