Word: openings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Violence. To open a political convention there must be a temporary chairman, who makes an oration to start things going. This orator must choose a subject upon which the convention holds a unanimous opinion. A "keynote" speech, therefore, is by definition a solemn prating about undisputed things. The more vague or remote the subject upon which the audience agrees, the nearer to the brink of absurdity will the orator totter in his effort to be impressive. So it was with Keynoter Fess at Kansas City, who sounded crass and flatulent on the vague topic of Republican Prosperity...
Having labelled their evidence and quizzed 104 prisoners (mostly waiters), the Prohibition officials made ready to apply 18 highgrade padlocks. Pending the trials, however, all the clubs stayed open, did business indignantly. The raided proprietors accused their prosecutors of publicity-seeking. "Why do they pick on us," said one man, "when there are 22,000 speakeasies in the city where they rob you of your money and sell you poison liquor...
...college boys played golf. Sturdy Maurice McCarthy Jr., of Georgetown, well recovered from the stage fright he suffered when given Walter Hagen as a playing partner in the National Open, drubbed John A. Roberts of Yale in the finals. Put out in an early round, Watts Gunn of Georgia Tech., famed friend of Bobby Jones, said: "I've got to quit this game. I'm going to get a job." Three curly-headed players from Princeton and one Charles Grace (son of the President of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.) won the team championship...
...farm he had tinkered with wires and electrical apparatus. At 27, he had designed the first open coil dynamo, following this with an arc lamp, the "ring clutch," in which the carbon is clutched by a ring attached to an armature which automatically keeps the light steady. This not only solved a long standing difficulty but brought the price to street level. Three years later (1879) the Public Square in Cleveland glowed under the first public arc lights...
...leaf turned over in honor of Hettie was quickly spattered with the blood of that worst of offenders, one who had struck a woman. And when later Lacy pitched himself into the free-for-all cattle wars of wide-open Arizona, his deserving victims fell thick and fast. Hettie's family, innocent immigrants to Arizona, had engaged a slick cattle thief as foreman of their ranch, and their cattle losses were climbing to the tens of thousands when Lacy, posed as a rustler himself, smartly unearthed the plots of rustling outfits, and plugged the treacherous foreman full of justice...