Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Braintree, Mass., and robbed of a payroll of $15,000 by two men who "looked like Italians." May 5, 1920. Two Italians who lived near South Braintree-Nicola Sacco, shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fish peddler-were arrested as suspicious characters. The U. S. was then on a rabid radical hunt. Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti were on the Red lists. July 14, 1921. A jury found Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti guilty of the South Braintree murders on the following evidence: Factory-window witnesses, who had previously identified other Italians as participants in the crime, swore that Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti...
...Lowden, farmers' friend and presidential aspirant. Said he: "There is nothing to be said at this time." Others were not so reticent. Governor Hammill of Iowa demanded that the next President be "in sympathy" with agriculture. Sixty-one Iowa legislators petitioned Mr. Lowden to be a candidate. Rabid farm organizations suggested a boycott on Eastern manufactured products. The East, complacent, had expected the veto and cheered it. After three days, the vociferation calmed. Its re-echo will probably not be heard in Washington until the 70th Congress meets in December...
...rabid style changes were suggested...
Meanwhile, George W. Hill, President of the American Tobacco Co., suggested that cigaret advertising ought to be prepared to appeal to the woman smoker. Manufacturers, fearing that such an act would precipitate a rabid anti-cigaret crusade, have not yet published advertising with pictures of a woman smoking. The nearest approach was the Chesterfield advertisement, wherein a charming damsel on a moonlight night asks her escort to: "Blow some...
Wayne B. Wheeler, paid advocate of the Anti-Saloon League, at once found himself the villain of the story. His statements through the week fluctuated between the rabid and the sensible arguments of the Drys. Said...