Word: neither
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stumping through his own part of the continent-Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico-Nominee Robinson last week assaulted Intolerance, leading issue in that section. He flayed "a lot of women with short skirts and long necks" for the Whispering Campaign. He cried: "Neither the Republican nor the Demo cratic platform declares in favor of Prohibition." He said: "Senator Curtis and I are dry - nobody knows how dry we are!" Also, he mixed with Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette, in an argument of the kind that is thoroughly enjoyed in a country of long adjectives...
George Hughie, the leading philosopher of Friendship, put the whole thing in one of his characteristic nutshells last week. Said he: "I hain't a-goin' to vote fer neither one. I wouldn't vote fer that cereal man. An' if it takes two Smith brothers ter make a package o' cough drops, 'taint likely one's goin' to do much to run th' country...
...Neither Yale nor Harvard allowed their first opponents to score upon them. No heel or seal-ring prints were seen upon the face of Guarnaccia, Harvard's halfback, after he and his fellows had scored 30 points against Springfield. Yale, though not easily, made 27 points against Maine...
...proposed exclusion of the 39 articles of religion, heritage of the English Church. The 39 articles, said the protestants, give to the Church an identity apart from the Roman Catholic Church. Should the articles be excluded, they argue, a not-to-be-desired tendency toward Romanism will be followed. Neither the "high" nor the "low" churchmen have taken either side. It was probable that the matter might be referred to a joint commission of bishops & deputies, which would report in 1931, lest an embarrassing controversy arise at the convention. Against the inclusion of the articles is Manhattan Bishop William Thomas...
...There are 12 banks in the system. Most important, for psychological reasons, is the New York unit. But its governor, Benjamin Strong, was neither speaker nor delegate in Philadelphia. He lay seriously ill in a Manhattan hospital after an operation for an intestinal ulcer...