Word: offends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like Harding, he would personify a return to normalcy after a hectic Democratic regime. For Dark Horse Dickinson, oldtime Harding supporters have been quietly conducting the same kind of preconvention campaign that Harry Daugherty put on for his Dark Horse in 1920-unobtrusively making friends, taking care not to offend leading candidates, building up a man on whom irreconcilably opposed factions could unite after a convention deadlock...
...mood was Mr. Hearst to support such an uninstructed delegation. Believing there was hope for Landon in the primary, the Master of San Simeon put pressure on Kansas' Governor to run in California. In a spot was Mr. Landon. To run would offend the Hoovers, would expose Landon to possible defeat by Borah, who had the support of many a follower of Senator Hiram Johnson, would cause Landon to be labeled the Hearst candidate-a label that Governor Landon has been trying to avoid since last December when William Randolph Hearst in his private car rode uninvited into Topeka...
...Pacific runs. He is proceeding on the theory that certain colors are conducive to nausea, while others breed "confidence and cheer." Cheerful green is the keynote for furniture, sheets and blankets. Mr. Ketcham advises airlines not to serve coffee or mayonnaise, on the ground that yellow and coffee colors offend stomachs already quivering from rough...
...Mussolini is reaching out with his mailed fist to drag us back into a more primitive age when conquest was respectable and did not offend the moral and legal code of international society as it does today...
...realized that he was about to flit off again on another vacation. It would never do for him to leave without allowing the members of the Court to do themselves the honor of calling on him. After all they were venerable men, whom it would be wanton folly to offend. So only an hour or two before his train departed Franklin Roosevelt had himself rolled from his office back to the White House proper and with his wife at his side not only received the formally-dressed oldsters of the Court, but for good measure gave them...