Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, I fear that you have shocked the Catholic Sister cruelly, unless you cancelled her subscription so promptly that she did not receive the issue in which her letter and the verse appeared. If I am any judge of human nature, she at least flipped through a copy to see if her letter had been printed. You might have spared her a shock, and perhaps tears...
...See front cover) Monster demonstrations for Smith along the Atlantic seaboard were the most interesting topic of the week for Democrats (see p. 13). Did those great crowds mean votes - or curiosity? Was Demos what Alexander Hamilton called it, "a great beast," or was it a thinking creature of articulate enthusiasms? Republicans also pondered the Smith ovations, both as campaign phenomena and with reference to a problem of their own. What were Republicans to think of Nominee Hoover's cry of warning against "State socialism" in his New York speech last fortnight? Was that a sincere cry against...
...Indiana. Republican Senator Arthur R. Robinson, campaigning for reelection, was viewed with alarm because of his past relations with proven corruptionists and the Klan. Strength to the Brown Derby thus accrued from the Senate candidacy of Democrat Albert Stump, as well as from the gubernatorial candidacy of Democrat Dailey (see above...
...exchange were immediate. The Hoover speech undoubt edly solidified portions of the Business vote of the U. S. It also hastened the pro-Smith declaration of independent Senator George W. Norris, reputed controller of Nebraska's electoral votes and a potent influence throughout the restless North-west (see p. 16). Senator Norris flatly opposed the Hoover position on water power, which for Senator Norris is the paramount issue. Senator Borah, one of Hooverism's most vigorous campaigners, was forced to admit, "I disagree with Mr! Hoover on the power question. If that were the only issue in this...
...take last week's football. I have been deluged with protests because of my hold announcement that Harvard would beat Dartmouth 13 to 7. They say that is what took the heart out of the Dartmouth boys. And I hate to see that so I'll not say a thing about Lehigh--not a word. Joe, Jr. tells me that the Harvard B team will win by only two touchdowns, but I'm not saying a word...