Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nomination over Francis Shunk Brown, candidate of Boss Vare of Philadelphia, by a plurality of 20,099 votes (TIME, June 2). Mr. Brown, a poor loser, contended he had been "robbed" of the nomination, sought a technical lever to pry Mr. Pinchot off the top of the political pile. He found it in Luzerne county where he had won 15,516 votes to Mr. Pinchot's 42,075. He charged that some 60,000 ballots there should be wiped out of the count because the Court of Common Pleas, to prevent fraud, had without legal authority, had the ballots perforated...
Walter Ferguson, Sterling supporter, declared his brother Jim was "no more interested in the common people than a hog in rock pile." On primary day some 900,000 Texas Democrats, deeply stirred by the campaign, went to the polls, cast a record vote which nominated Candidate Sterling by a majority of almost 100,000. The entire big-city press of Texas agreed with him when he claimed his victory was a "triumph of good government" and the end of "Fergusonism." Nominee Sterling, sure of election, will have perfunctory opposition in November from Dr. Charles Butte, Republican gubernatorial nominee. Born poor...
...expert in the Caesarian section." Bulletins from the castle began to assure the Empire that everything was all right. Busloads of curious tourists rumbled round the locked gates of the castle. Scotsmen climbed nearby Hunter's Hill, gazed solemnly at the rain-drenched 40-ft. bonfire-pile, waiting these many days to flash the news to the country. Home Secretary John Robert Clynes who must be present at the birth, celebrated his twelfth day of waiting at divine service in Kirriemuir ("Thrums" of Sir James Matthew Barrie's stories). At Cowes, Isle of Wight, the royal yacht Victoria...
...Legend of Bibendum's conception: Some one saw a pile of tires heaped up in the Michelin factory at Clermont-Ferrand, France, and fancied a grotesque human resemblance. A cartoonist named O'Gallot was commissioned to make the pile of tires into a trademark. Soon along the highways of the world appeared the inflated figure of Bibendum, so called because he originally appeared holding a goblet of wine, and with the slogan Nunc est Bibendum ("The time has come to drink"). The blurbal application of the slogan was that Michelin tires "drank up" the shocks and bumps of travel...
George V, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, rode in state down the Strand last week to the just-finished pile of India House on Aldwych, passed smiling between lines of gold-braided officialdom, mounted the Throne of India guarded by four gigantic Indian Orderlies in red and black, and faced his own specially designed gold and silver microphone...