Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually the Republicans had lost ground in many places. For 22 years Philadelphia has sent a solid Republican delegation to the House. This year Philadelphia elected three Democrats. In Illinois, Representative Fred Britten, Republican, was beaten after 22 years. Oscar de Priest, Negro Republican from Chicago's Black Belt, lost to Arthur W. Mitchell first Negro the Democrats ever nominated to oppose...
...cheese and witch-hazel. They invented a Goldbergian "Sleep Prolonger" (alarm clock to window to heat register) which, produced in commercial quantities, made the night hideous by performing at any hour except the right one. They formed a Criminal Club, a Housebreakers' Union, presented in Chapel a solid mass of shaved pates. Dink Stover, later to win fame at Yale, carried his whole Latin class by signalling with a pair of mobile ears whenever The Roman, their teacher, asked his favorite question, "Gerund or gerundive?" One day The Roman changed his question to "Pick out the first gerund...
Zita was a Victorian beauty who married a solid Englishman, a gentleman though a banker. He buried her in the country, never thought about her amusement. As mutely Victorian as he, she was unhappy but would not have admitted it. When business settled them in Paris, life began to look up for Zita. She had her portrait painted, met a young French poet who fell Gallically in love with her. At the last minute their elopement fell through; Zita was too blooded a Victorian. Years later they met again, but the poet was no longer a temptation. Instead, Zita fell...
Apart from raising an estimated $1,000,000 and enlisting the solid support of the California Press, the tactics of conservatives have proved largely negative. In self-defense, Acting Governor Merriam espoused, under his breath, the Townsend Plan, a wild-eyed scheme to pay oldsters $200 a month with the understanding that each month's pension be spent in full within 30 days. But nobody took him seriously. Big drive of the "nonpartisan" Stop Sinclair movement took the form of a blizzard of pamphlets proclaiming: "Out Of His Own Mouth Shall He Be Judged." Material was culled from Author...
...Francisco next week to see one of the world's great water systems begin pouring into the metropolis a colossal stream from a far-away mountain. Canyon. Across the State from San Francisco, in what is now Yosemite National Park, early travelers found a unique canyon, gouged from solid granite by eons of glacial grinding and the swift rush of the Tuolumne River. Indians who named the canyon "Hetch Hetchy" were gone before any white man thought to ask them what the strange words meant. More than half a century ago visionary San Franciscans, irked by the scarcity...