Word: rehashes
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...summations were largely a rehash of the routine publicity outpourings of the Dry organizations represented. Their common points: Prohibition is a great economic, social and moral success; liquor has always bred official corruption; all good citizens should "observe the law and throttle nullification...
...never seen him before, was Walter W. Liggett, onetime Minnesota newsgatherer. Lately Mr. Liggett has been investigating Prohibition conditions in several states and writing for Plain Talk such articles as "Holy Hypocritical Kansas," "Michigan, Soused and Serene,"Bawdy Boston," "How wet is Washington?" His testimony was largely a rehash of his writings. Excerpts...
When a newspaper forages through its news calendar, seizes whatever news it can find or rehash, throws an edition into print and out upon the streets ahead of competitors, that edition is a "bulldog" edition. Chicago's Herald & Examiner ("Herex") publishes a "bulldog" edition on Sunday afternoons. Last week this edition carried a story about one Rocco Maggio, badman. "Herex" said Maggio would stand trial next day on a statutory (sex) offense against a 14-year-old girl whom he had since married...
When workers in the silk mills of Paterson, N. J., were on strike in 1924, some of them met in a local hall to rehash their grievances. The police forbade them to hold another such meeting. Roger N. Baldwin, an angular idealist from New York, whose mission in life as a director of the American Civil Liberties Union includes attending and abetting important strikes, was in Paterson at the time. When he heard of the police order, he marshalled some young women, gave them a U. S. flag to carry and with several others started marching to Paterson...
Doorman John Healy comes to work Sunday morning bringing a partly finished bottle of whiskey. He greets his colleague, George Tiernan, nightman, with the suggestion that they "kill the quart" before Mr. Tiernan goes home. They are bosom friends and two hours pass pleasantly while they rehash what has been their favorite conversational topic since the Lihmes left town, namely, the stinginess of "The Old Swede's" (Mr. Lihme's) tips and the indisputable right, the incontrovertible necessity of two fine Irish elevator men to get an increase...