Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throat was scarf-wound against the cold and for further protection he was bundled into a closed car for the drive to the hotel. Friends offered the closed car as explanation of the appalling scene which followed. As Nominee Landon passed through Oklahoma City's streets there rose from the crowd lined all along the way not cheers, not boos, but a great, cold, dead silence...
There were cheers in the local Coliseum when "Alfalfa Bill" Murray rose to introduce the Nominee as a composite of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. James A. Garfield and Calvin Coolidge "plus a pleasant personality." Returning the compliment, Nominee Landon listed the onetime Governor first among famed anti-New Deal Democrats who had espoused his cause, called on "real Democrats" throughout the land to rally...
...arrival in Indianapolis Nominee Landon was booed only in the city's Negro section, heartily cheered elsewhere. That evening the Indianapolis Coliseum, was jammed to its 14,000-seat capacity. When the Nominee rose to speak he got the warmest ovation of his campaign. It was a full seven minutes before the wildly yelling crowd would let him begin his long-awaited pronouncement on foreign relations. Twenty-nine times in the course of the 24-minute speech, on which he and his advisers had been working all summer, his audience broke in with applause or cheers...
Pitt, pointing for the Rose Bowl, was upset 7-to-0 when little Duquesne's substitute halfback, George Matsik, got loose around right end, ran 72 yd. for a touchdown...
...National Committee "to Lift the Onion Eater from the Category of Social Lepers." The Committee's plans were tentative. Said Secretary A. W. Lockwood: "Some want to educate the public to enjoy and preserve the aroma of onion, which they feel is as pleasing as that of a rose, if you look at it right. Others favor an attempt to popularize the scientists' findings and show the public how to eliminate onion breath.* A few hold that the onion has been slandered and that what you think is onion breath may be just The Bronx...