Word: politican
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House voting is not quite so farcical. One can usually recognize who the house candidates are and what they stand for by personal contact with them in the dining hall and in house activities. House elections are easier and fairer on candidates, too. A Lowell politican for example, can more conveniently, and much more justifiably, canvass all the entries in Lowell to advance his cause, than stuff everybody's mailbox with tire-some and inane letters...
Charley Thurber, the boys' father, was tall, thin, an inveterate wearer of derby hats, and by profession an unsuccessful politican. Although he kept running for various offices until he was nearly 65, he never got elected to any. When there were six leading candidates for five offices, Charley Thurber would invariably finish sixth. Too honest to play ball with a political machine, and too amiable and gentle to be a winning maverick, he was a chronic also...
...which politican wiseacres have been dining at the public for weeks to describe the Republican problem, had dwindled to the first couplet except as political poetry. The candidacy of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes may contain a trace of realism, but the G. O. Politicians distrust Mr. Dawes. He is so quick on the trigger, and he backed the McNary-Haugen bill.* As for Frank Orren Lowden, his candidacy has been buried alive by recent developments in Illinois...
...three acts the audience and the authors worry themselves with the question, "Will Tommy get her?", and it takes the combined efforts of his rival Bernard, politican Uncle Dave, and a quart of something-or-other to put Tommy over for the winning score. The plot is as old as the theatre. There's a little French play of one act in which two old fathers conspire to marry the daughter of one to the son of the other. The key line is classic, "Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight...