Word: slushing
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...enjoy the production. That is not so hard, really, in spite of the sticky sentimentality that inevitably gums a musical comedy book about a country lad, a country lass, a dream, and a cottage at the end of Honeymoon Lane. It is easier to forget Eddie's slush because Florence O'Denishawn dances thru it all like a fairy on a moonbeam...
Subway Sadie (Dorothy MacKaill, Jack Mulhall). Out of material rich enough for genuine epic drama, they have extracted common cinema slush. The roaring subway," the jostled crowds are employed as sentimental background for a nitwit who wants to go to Paris more than anything else, but marries a poor subway guard instead. The guard turns out to be the son of the subway system's owner, so she goes to Paris after...
...past summer gave Senator Reed his golden opportunity to bay after primary slush funds in Pennsylvania and Illinois (TIME, June 21 et seq.). Republicans accuse Mr. Reed of sheer Administration baiting. People wonder what pressure could have been brought to bear to terminate, suddenly, his probing of Samuel Insull and other Illinois "angels...
...American wage earners and producers, and that to elect a Democratic senate or house would be a step in the direction of letting down the bars for foreign cheap labor competition in our market." The Democrats, being the party out of office, naturally run on a reform platform and "Slush" is their war cry, even out in Indiana where the Reed Senatorial Committee has been asked to investigate their primaries. Representative Oldfield last week journeyed to Allentown, Pa., where Democracy is fighting desperately to elect to the U. S. Senatorship, William B. Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor...
...boss, who is the Second Ward; States Attorney Robert E. Crowe, prosecutor of famed Loeb and Leopold, now the leader of the Crowe-Barrett gang; Daniel J. Schuyler, attorney for Mr. Insull; Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, who openly defied the committee in behalf of Senatorial Candidate Vare, Pennsylvania slush prizewinner...