Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Translations. "What did choose mean?" people asked. Reliable Vermonters were found who said it was a cautious colloquialism for "want." Funnyman Will Rogers and others declared it as foxy a word as an adroit politician ever selected. Columnist Heywood Broun thought it had "magnificent swank." Senator Bruce of Maryland, with Democratic irony, quoted Macbeth: "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown...
Against his success as a publisher is set his failure as a politician. Unfitted by his retiring personality to capture votes by red-ink methods as he has captured readers, he started under an almost insuperable handicap. He lacked the glad hand. He never was a mixer on a small scale or a large one. Accordingly the only weapon he had left was his brain, backed up by the power of newspapers. These proved insufficient...
Died. John Dillon, M. P., 76, renowned, dynamic, and strapping Irish politician; in London, after a major abdominal operation. A lifelong friend of the Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons," he was also the great contemporary and successor to Charles Stewart Parnell in the finally successful fight of the Irish proletariat against the abuses of Irish landlordism...
...Francisco (Dolores Costello). With her proud father she dwells on the sunny, ivy-grown rancho of the Vasquez family, who founded San Francisco. There she might have breathed rose-laden zephyrs and married Terrence O'Shaughnessy (Charles Mack) but for Buckwell (Warner Oland), villainous politician. He wants to take away her rancho. Because she senses that, despite appearances, this wretch is a Mongolian, he carries her off to the most devilish abyss in old Chinatown, "the inner circle of the mile of hell." There, on the point of worse than death, it occurs to her to repeat the Lord...
...Durbin, businessman and Democratic politician of Kenton, who was host, was re-elected President of the Brotherhood...