Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey, possibly as a sympathetic reaction from the New York excitement, the Rev. Marna S. Poulson, Anti-Salooner, announced that Newark was "wide open," especially as to gambling in Newark's Chinatown...
...disease known as detour" he said. Near Medford, wading the chilly "Rogue River at dawn, the Nominee obtained no reaction to his trout flies. "No luck" he said. "Let's go where there are some fish." ¶ In Burlingame, Calif., thejustice-of-the-peace waived a warrant, issued in 1925, for the arrest of Herbert Clark Hoover. Charge: motoring with glaring headlights. ¶In West Branch, Iowa, a Mrs. Addie Clark showed a newsgatherer a scrawled schoolday note in her album: "To Addie: "Let your days be days of peas, "Slip along as slick as greese...
...tormented, but another self damned them as unholy. Meanwhile his gift of oratory won him the leadership of a sect of fanatics who confessed, screamed, rolled in mystic joy. In a country-wide revival his converts rivalled Elmer Gantry's in emotional displays, but his own motive and reaction, unlike Elmer Gantry's, are recorded in art and not in bitter propaganda. Author Davies has crudities,of technique, but not of sympathy. A difficult undertaking, this analysis of the tortures of a sensitive man, harassed by women, consumed by religious mania, ends wretchedly when Reuben finds both lacking...
Warm approval tempered by a certain amount of indifference characterized the reaction, last week, of European capitols to the Republican nomination of Herbert Hoover for President of the U. S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Typical of the German reaction as a whole were the Tageblatt's comment that "15,000,000 Europeans would have starved but for Herr Hoover," and the Vossische Zeitung's observation that: "Americans wish, after the colorlessness of their last two Presidents, to see a strong and big personality at the head of their State...