Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lived to be twice victorious. If Smith runs much ahead of Cox and Davis he need not despair of doing the same. He is younger now than Jackson was the first time he ran and equally the idol of his followers. The Digest poll, when read aright, falls far short of showing that Smith will not be president of the United States...
...last touchdown was made by Mason on a short rush over center. The ball had been placed in scoring position chiefly as a result of a scrub fumble on its own 20-yard line and a forward pass from George Crawford ocC. to Batchelder. Crawford kicked in the final point by a drop kick...
Indiana. The trip through Indiana was informal but not speechless. There were hatwavings and handshakings at Kankakee and Lafayette. At Indianapolis, the Nominee made a short outdoor speech and visited State Boss Thomas Taggart in a hospital where, unfortunately for the Brown Derby, he has long been confined. Nevertheless, sick Boss Taggart whispered: "You'll win Indiana...
...Henry tells the one and only lucky typewriter mistake. "Her typewriter began to rattle and jump like a strike-breaker's motor car," wrote O. Henry in his short story, "Springtime a la Carte." . . . How, unable to find her sweetheart in New York . . . her money running low . . . she earned her meals by typing menus . . . and hammered out instead of "Dandelion Greens with Hard-Boiled Egg," "Dearest Walter with Hard-Boiled Egg." And fortunately "Dearest Walter" wandered into the restaurant, found his name on the menu . . . and they lived happily ever after...
...abets her stage career. They find a storybook cottage-thatch roof, rambler roses, flagstones-he settles down to his writing, she commutes to her London theatre. Every midnight he meets her in the two-seater, serves her supper at the blazing hearth, listens to her footlight triumphs. In short, he is so thoroughbred that she succumbs to the illicit blandishments of the leading man in her show. Fond Michael, suddenly informed, spoils the matinée idol's beauty with a black eye and bloody nose. The wife repents...