Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...included even Texas. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican candidate for Congressman-at-large, diverted some attention with a barbecue at her farm northwest of Chicago, at which 10,000 Republicans consumed six tons of beef and pork, 200 barrels of potatoes, five truckloads of bread. But it was a prime moment for the Brown Derby to be in the heart of the Midlands. Just before he got there, the Salt Creek oil scandal had broken, involving National G. O. P. Chairman Work and Attorney General Sargent with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and politics (see p. 7). People were waiting...
...seems that they mean the skinny, baggy fore part of a typical Vermonter's throat. I like the expression so well that I want to be reminded of it by having a copy of TIME'S cartoon framed and hung in my den. Your cartoonist has put prime "wattles" on President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg, Senator Vare, Senator Borah and "Big Bill" Thompson. HENRY HARRIMAN TYLER New Rochelle...
...BRITAIN "Piggy People" Smart and sportsmanly Britons have long playfully called each other "horsey people"; and last week it began to seem that foremost British statesmen will soon be known as "piggy people." For some years, the hobby of pig keeping has been pursued by His Majesty's Prime Minister, the Right Honorable Stanley Baldwin; but last week despatches significantly announced that prizes have now been taken by a sow and a litter, respectively, hailing from the piggeries of two more Cabinet ministers. The sow appertains to His Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable Winston...
...returned with enough seats in Parliament to hold the balance of power between Conservatives and Laborites. Such was their good fortune at the last election but one; and they used their balance of power to place in office the first and only British Laborite who was ever Prime Minister, James Ramsay MacDonald (TIME...
...prime minister of Moldavia is negotiating a treaty with the fat King of Wallachia; to contract the alliance is essential, but to do so it is also essential that the Prince of Moldavia marry the proud Princess of Wallachia. The true prince is unwilling to bother with preliminaries; hence the actor is offered his choice between a life-career in the salt mines and a chance to woo by proxy the foreign princess and bring her back for the real prince to wed. He chooses the latter and naturally falls in love with the lady he is supposed to deceive...