Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neat political trick whereby such legal difficulties could be sidestepped and the Governorship kept in the family. First to use it was James Ferguson who, following his impeachment and removal from office, put up his wife Miriam ("Ma") in his stead. Last week Mr. Langer decided to follow this pattern when he resigned his nomination and had the Republican State Central Committee, packed with his partisans, nominate his better, unfelonious half...
...known that Professor Turner's liberal activities had nothing to do with the case. Said Chancellor Bowman: "I merely thought his position here could be better filled by another man." But the nation raised a doubtful eyebrow. Too many facts fitted too neatly into a contrary pattern. In 1921 hardfisted, go-getting Chancellor Bowman had a vision. He would dramatize and thus revive his huge,* down-at-heels University by giving it the tallest academic building in the world. For 13 years he has thought, dreamed, talked of almost nothing else. Under his flowery salesmanship Pittsburgh pocketbooks melted...
...applaud when Philip finally finds Mildred horrible enough to say calmly: "You disgust me!" Enraged, Mildred screams abuse at Philip, ends with the most dreadful insult she can think of: "You cripple!" If the final sequences showing Philip becoming engaged to a decent wholesome girl suggest the standard pattern of a happy ending it is because Author Maugham wrote his story that...
...Majesty, Mary the Good of England, has many queenly prerogatives, one of which is to wear hats of a famed pattern. Secretary Frances Perkins of the Department of Labor, nicknamed in Washington "Madam Queen," also has many prerogatives. One of them, to wear tricorn hats, she has exercised for many a year. Another, to conciliate labor disputes, she has had since taking office but has not notably exercised. In the crowd of angry disputants in the automobile labor trouble, the Weirton Steel case, the Budd body strike, the Alabama miners' walkout, the Manhattan taxicab strike and many another...
...listened to Negro preachers, attended a footwashing service of Hardshell Baptists. He discovered why the roads in Winston County are worse than their neighbors': the mountaineers there were still being punished for their refusal to send men for the Confederate army. He listed many a fiddle-tune, quilt pattern,, mountain and Negro superstition, collected some Brer Rabbit tales not to be found in Joel Chandler Harris. He heard of a legendary Jim. "the stud nigger," whose boss hired out his services to a far-away plantation. When Jim learned that he would have to travel 500 miles each...