Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night long Harvard Square leaps in over his windowsill. The lights glitter, gleam and tirelessly climb the wall, seeking new shadings between that illumination which merely arrests his attention and that which renders him temporarily blind. And there is the trolley's long descending squeal, the trucks that shift gears explosively and use rocket propulsion, the milkmen that talk shop. Then, through the hazy doze that comes with dawn, comes the sound of a bell that is rung. It has been truly said! When bedlam comes in at the winodw, sentiment flies out by the door...
...electors and the winning ticket gets less than half of all the votes cast, the majority has no redress. Neither would there be redress if all or part of the winning ticket of electors should, before the second Monday in January, "bolt" the party which elected it and shift or split the State's electoral vote. Such an event is almost unthinkable, party politics being what they are. No elector has dared or chosen to break his pledge since 1796 when Samuel Miles, a Federalist elector in Pennsylvania, voted for Thomas Jefferson instead of John Adams. Faithless Elector Miles...
Rails. Southern Pacific announced, last week, election of able Hale Holden, now president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. to be Chairman of the Executive Committee of Southern Pacific. Railroader Holden has won bright fame as chief lieutenant of astute Arthur Curtiss James, railroad capitalist and yachtsman. In the shift of Southern Pacific executives, railroaders guessed that Mr. James was weaving an "integration" (merger is forbidden by law) of western roads with a mileage of 38,500. He owns vast amounts of stock in Great Northern; Northern Pacific; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Southern Pacific, Denver & Salt Lake; Western Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande...
...John Roach Straton, blatant Manhattan pulpiteer, who characterized Governor Smith, last fortnight, as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom." Challenged to debate the charge in his own Calvary Baptist Church (TIME, Aug. 20), Pulpiteer Straton weasled, tried to shift the scene to local amphitheatres. But Nominee Smith declined to make a public show. He wrote: "The answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would not debate in his church...
Pending the perfection of such an invention, the People and the Nominees will probably continue making shift with the daily press, which, in politics, has two ends. The People are familiar with one end, the Nominees with both ends. The People find their end lying on millions of white stoops, on thousands of newsstands. The Nominees find their end waiting around in hotel lobbies, anterooms of suites, railroad stations, private car platforms. Their end is "The Boys," as Presidents Roosevelt and Harding used to call their entourage of newsgatherers...