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Last July, while St. Louisans were perspiring through one of their hottest recorded summers, the resourceful Post-Dispatch startled them out of their discomfort by beginning a series of sensational registration fraud exposures. Day by day the newspaper printed pictures of many a vacant lot, unoccupied building, bawdy house, saloon and cheap hotel listed on the Election Board's "revised and corrected" election rolls as domiciles of phantom voters. Soon private citizens, civic organizations, hungry Republicans turned out of office four years ago in the New Deal landslide, set up a loud clamor, began...
...word anaesthetic in 1846. Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed as Spanish in origin, on H. L. Mencken's authority, is the U. S. poker term ante...
...fits me perfectly," stated Miss Astor, recalling, "many exquisite moments . . . twenty-count them, diary, twenty. . . . I don't see how he does it... he is perfect." In October 1935, Actress Astor admitted on the stand, she had telephoned Mr. Kaufman, whom she had not met, from a Manhattan saloon, asked him if he would care to make her acquaintance. He would and did, the upshot being that playwright and actress spent ten days together in a "snug and delightfully cozy" Manhattan apartment. Miss Astor wrote in her diary that she asked Mr. Kaufman: "How is it that...
Returning to Baltimore on the excursion boat State of Virginia at the end of a two-day cruise on Chesapeake Bay with 235 Automobile Trade Association Conventionites, Maryland's roly-poly Governor Henry Whinna Nice was in the forward saloon with everyone else about 10 p. m. cheering a rowdy chorus-girl show, when there came four blasts of the ship's whistle. Instant later, passengers were knocked sprawling as the steel bow of the freighter Golden Harvest chopped ten feet into the State of Virginia's side a few yards aft of the merrymakers...
...Manhattan saloon, thirsty Peter Gallagher borrowed $10 from the bartender, left $450 of Bonus bonds as collateral, woke up in a hallway next morning, his mind a total blank...