Word: oed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...messiness of G. O. P. politics in Massachusetts is due to jealousies and backbiting between leaders and senatorial candidates. The Senate seat now occupied by white-goateed Frederick Huntington Gillett is open to the 1930 election. Aged 78, an officeholder for a half-century, he is the Senate's best contract bridge player but otherwise has left no large impress upon its history. Younger men want his place, but he has volunteered to step aside only for Citizen Calvin Coolidge...
...Martial law was enforced. Six o'clock curfew was ordered, armored cars guarded the streets and airplanes watched from above. Censorship was rigid...
Alas! Whereto may I truste?. . . Why, than ye wyll forsake me all!. . . O, all thynge fayleth, save God alone...
...Donnelly, head of Northern Pacific. Besides bankers of four States (including James E. Woodward, president of Metals Bank of Butte and Sam Stephenson, president of First National of Great Falls) the board will number leading industrialists. Among those already chosen are John D. Ryan, Cornelius F. Kelly, and L. O. Evans, respectively the chairman, president and general manager of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., gigantic producer and fabricator not only of copper, but zinc, lead, silver, gold, antimony, arsenic...
...idea that King Vidor, who wrote and directed it, does not know much about Negroes but that he has guessed and reasoned out a lot. His story, simple yet sophisticated, does not go as deep into the way a black man's mind works as, for instance, Eugene O'Neill went in Emperor Jones. It is a white man's comment on the relationship between sex and religion, a comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind of writing. After shooting his brother in an argument about a crap game...