Word: routing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what loomed high even above Roosevelt's triumph was the utter and complete confusion of the forces of fanaticism, the inglorious rout of the rabble-rousers. In the North, in the South and far beyond the Mississippi, demagogue after demagogue fell before the crushing blast of inspired votes. James M. Curley, friend and participating member of the society of jail-birds, whose notorious record in local politics will go down in the annals of the state, recieved his just due; an over-whelming rebuff--the mandate of Massachusetts...
...Dixon the wave continued unbroken. Started by Talmadge's failure in September it reached a climax in the crushing defeat of the Coughlin carbon-copy, Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, of Louisiana. This worthy successor to the mantle of Huey Long, revealed his true colours when, blinded by the rout of his forces, he turned to obscene and filthy language on the streets of New Orleans and was thrown into jail; what power he ever had ended for ever...
...were not worth bothering with. When, in the fourth chukker, chunky little Hughes poked the ball between the posts three times, England was only a goal behind. When Guinness scored again for England in the sixth, the score was tied at 7-all, and what had started as a rout was momentarily the tightest U. S. v. England polo since...
...scandlous durings going on here." She liked the "Smart and Strudy Swiss." In Belgrade a girl passed her carrying a succulent dish. Said Juanita: "where ever you goth I'll flower it smelled so good I flowered Her 2 blocks." When she writes of herself as leaving "in rout'' she does not mean that her unshakable equanimity has been disturbed. ''The French are called the Sweetheart Nation because they kiss and hugh right on the buisy streets. Yet they are perfectly harmless in the house...
...magnificent feat of cinematography when he articulates the progress of this remarkable revolutionary battle piece. Taking advantage of the dank Baltic gloom around the Kronstadt Naval Base to begin his film in low key, he dramatically heightens it until the climax is reached with the great attack and rout of the White Army on the bleached, glaring tundras north of Petrograd. At the same time, We Are From Kronstadt is periodi cally botched by overexposures, uncommunicative acting sequences, sagging pace...