Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carolina. Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. The Tinkham amendment was probably as illegal as the Hoch. But Northern Republicans have for many years threatened to "do something" about Southern disfranchisement of the Negro, and here was an admirable opportunity to do it. So the Tinkham amendment was passed, by a narrow margin Amid hysterical excitement, Congressman Tinkham kept hopping up and down, while his huge black beard bristled with triumph as he watched the (momentary) victory of his long-championed but apparently hopeless cause...
...least he will be able to display the endurance necessary to handle the raise of heat at the end of the race. While not pulling as strong an oar as other oarsmen who have been previously tried out this season in the stroke seat, the favor of a narrow oar, such as was employed by John Watts '28 last year, may remedy the situation and allow him the reserve necessary for the final effort...
...highly publicized figure of the election was hard-hitting, dry-voting Lady Nancy Astor. At the end of a campaign that included everything from singing the national anthem to physical combat, she was returned to Parliament by the narrow squeak of 211 votes. Worn out by weeks of campaigning, she wept as the ballots were being counted and said: "I'm going back to Westminster anyway, and not back to Virginia as my opponents predicted. Thank God, I have never truckled to the liquor interests...
...Knox hats. The hatter, of course, takes a bird's-eye view of heads and in the Knox files are thousands of outlines (technically known as "conforms") of heads as they appear when looked straight down at. Generally speaking, there are two main types of outline-a long, narrow ellipse hardly wider at the centre than at the ends, and a short, pear-shaped figure with the wide part at the back. Long and narrow were the heads of Theodore Roosevelt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Victor Herbert. Short and pear-shaped were the heads of Ulysses S. Grant, Charles Frohman...
Manhattan's Jimmy Walker has the narrow oval head; Pittsburgh's Andrew Mellon is pronouncedly among the pear-heads...