Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never chooses a monosyllable when a polysyllable will do. To him lobbyists are "obscene harpies." Fellow-Senators settle back for a quarter-hour's solid amusement when he strikes such a forensic vein as inspired his essay on the Democratic Donkey: "He is a braying compendium of stately dignity, stanch endurance, fortitude and patience. ... In our quadrennial Presidential campaigns there is more music in his raucous hee-haw than in the midnight minstrelsy of a nightingale. The donkey is a serio-comic philosopher, whose stamina and stoicism conquered the wilderness . . . a sure-footed creature of epicurean taste and gargantuan appetite...
...Biggest Roosevelt loss: 10.41% in South Carolina. Chief areas of Roosevelt losses: 1) the Solid South, 2) South Dakota, Nebraska, Indiana...
Significant politically was the fact that the chief falling off in the Roosevelt vote was in the Solid South. There the New Deal may lose heavily without bettering the chances of Republicans to get elected. Nonetheless Republicans took hope by declaring that the poll's question was so worded as to test the President's personal popularity rather than the political strength of his policies. G. O. Partisans made much of a local by-election for the New York State Senate last week in the President's home district, which he represented in 1910-13 but failed to carry...
This week, after eight solid years of work, Amos and Andy will go off the air after their 1,892nd broadcast. Messrs. Gosden & Correll, less popular than heretofore, have fallen from first to fourth place in the last poll,* but they still get 5,000 letters a month. Last year besides their $200,000 from Pepsodent they made $100,000 from theatrical engagements. Both married before Amos and Andy were created. Gosden has become the father of two children since the first broadcast six years ago. They live in neighboring apartments in Chicago. This summer Gosden, a native of Richmond...
...London, Very Rev. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge set a definite date-Oct. 2-to his retirement from St. Paul's Cathedral. At 74, Dean Inge is in good health, but so deaf as to be tortured by the half sounds of music. Born of a solid ecclesiastical family, he is a low churchman, an arch-Tory, a rabble-hater. His successor, whose appointment the Dean recommended to his King, is Very Rev. Walter Robert Matthews, 53, dean of Exeter Cathedral. An able theologian and philosophy professor, Dr. Matthews is a religious modernist and far from gloomy...