Word: perking
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...election results, as I see it, will be the performance of much 'high politics' in Washington during the next two years. By that I mean that the 90-odd candidates for the Presidential nomination who are members of the United States Senate will begin to perk...
Little newsboys, big newsboys, dirty-faced ragamuffins, scampering tatterdemalions dropped 19,314 pennies into a pot. The pennies soon lost their individuality, oozed together in a sea of molten copper, found themselves poured into a perk-eared, four-legged cast, emerged in the shape of "Laddie Boy," famed Airedale of the late President Harding...
Businessman-Boss Brennan is getting mellow. He is playing his last big game, "betting his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of prohibition." The voters perk up their ears and open their eyes. Now they can see how this backroom worker of cigar stores and old saloons performs. He feeds their curiosity with garrulous anecdotes, he says little of economic significances...