Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arabesque pattern of vermilion, magenta, citron. Then the top of the wall would curl like a malevolent phosphorus wave. With a crash as of metallic surf it would topple, advance, cool, form another wall. For some reason the lava moved more swiftly at night. Even from Messina, at the northern tip of Sicily, it could be seen slipping down Etna, like a tiny blazing snake...
...passionate oratory that might have been her inherited forte. Long before the Smith tariff declaration at Louisville, she found it necessary to declare for Protection, which her father fought so long. Florida has changed since the Commoner first invested in its real estate and conducted prayer meetings there. Northern business men and methods opened a new field for northern political ideas and attitudes. Ruth Bryan Owen had to adapt herself and did so grudgingly. Besides the new Tariff ideas in her party, she balked at Tammany and the "grape juice" tradition of her family was affronted by the Smith wetness...
Proudly announced by the French Government's new Office Français du Tourisme in Manhattan was the opening, last week, of a new transAlpine railway linking smart Monte Carlo and Nice directly with Northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany...
...thousands of dollars The Fellowship Forum collected during the campaign to carry on its work will never be precisely known. Its drive was unceasing. One week before Election Day, Editor James S. Vance sent through the mails a "final appeal" for funds. Many of the letters were despatched to northern Republicans with Park Avenue addresses. "I want financial help," wrote Editor Vance, "that will enable me to single shot Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Arkansas and Texas, and turn a probability into a certainty...
Registration. By "Hague-Land"' is meant the strongly Democratic northern counties of New Jersey, dominated by the Hudson County machine of Boss-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. A typical complication of the election was seen last week in Hudson and Essex Counties. N. J. Republicans had been 'trying to fasten shame on Boss Hague. They obtained a new election law and challenged some 40,000 names on the heavy registration .'lists', as illegal. The Democrats retaliated -by charging that in Atlantic City, a Re publican stronghold. 2,370 names were il legally registered, including names...