Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the Republicans, it was a spectacular primary even for spectacular Illinois. It was the Republicans who tried to spell Reform. About 100,000 Democrats got excited and joined in the G. O. P. melee, confusing things more than ever. The Republican primary had the following results and implications...
...income tax returns were being looked up too. Awaiting his fate, Connolly borrowed fortitude from tradition. Of the three Queens presidents preceding this, one (Cassidy) went to Sing Sing; one (Bermel) fled to Europe; one (Gresser) was removed for incompetence on the matter that Connolly was elected to reform, Sewers...
State's Attorney Crowe: "Bombings have become a recognized method of creating public sympathy and increasing the flow of revenues for reform or political purposes...
...Waves of reform often stir a froth of laughter as they move forward. Lindsey's reform can be criticized in that it seeks to remove immorality by changing morality; also it can be said that, to most people, the two indispensable adjuncts of matrimony are child bearing and the permanence which springs from it, neither of which the companionate theory emphasizes...
...exponent of "It," pulled off gold-dug clothes, jumped into a lily pond, and rose to the surface with only a lily in her red hair. She was an amorous manicurist, clipping three elderly clients for clothes until she met the nephew of one, whereupon in a burst of reform and shame she took the climactic pond plunge. Elinor Glyn devised the diverting asininity...