Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toledo, William Gibbs McAdoo ("I had almost forgotten his name," shouted Senator Bruce on the floor of the Senate) addressed a meeting of lawyers. He flayed the enemies of Prohibition. He flayed the evil existing, socially and politically, in large centres of population. Next day the time of the Senate was consumed with Democratic jabberdash and poly-wrangle. Pro-Smith Wets raged at McAdoo "bigotry," Anti-Smith Drys lauded the services of Mr. McAdoo as Secretary of the Treasury (1913-18) but regretted that he had felt called upon to re-enter the Presidential lists in the Toledo manner...
Said the Chicago Tribune: "Everybody speaks of it as the Outer drive. That is a good name because it is a natural one and a descriptive one. The best place names in cities are the natural ones. . . . We cite the Lake Shore drive, Broadway, the Boston Common. These names are right. They do not offend by disproportion. They come naturally to the tongue. They have character. They belong to the thing. Why strain for a better name when the Outer drive is so certain the right...
...Judith appears in the Apocryphal book of the Old Testament which bears her name. In order to save her town she engages Holofernes, the attacking general, in a drinking bout; persuades him to try one of her potent highballs. Soon he loses consciousness. Soon she cuts off his head, rushes to her native market place with the dripping trophy. Inspired, her townsfolk oust the enemy...
...along such a treacherous precipice in the Rocky Mountains that, every time the train crawls along that stretch, passengers, trainmen and engineers utter what prayers are in them. The watchman of this section is a romantically minded youth who writes letters to a young lady under another man's name. One day the young lady ascends the Rockies to visit her correspondent and supposed lover. She is so chagrined at finding the wrong man that the hero has to save the train from being wrecked before the ending can become happy. On the whole, it might better have tumbled over...
...Story.? One foggy evening in 1900, a tough barge rat from Haverstraw, N. Y., marvels, as always, at the changing masses of Manhattan's skyline seen from the North River. "Gee," he says. "Gee!" He can neither read nor write. He is 16; name, John Breen; parents, a once-pretty Irish servant and someone other than the grimy bargee she calls their "old man." Entering the East River, in thickening fog and greasy tide-rips, the barge is rammed. Loaded with bricks ("the city's red corpuscles") it plunges under. John Breen struggles out of the greenish-black water...