Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleven States of the Midwest with their 149 electoral votes are to the G. O. P. what the eleven States of the South, with 124 electors, are to the Democracy. They are the cornerstone, the bulwark, among which "bolts" and "splits" and outright transitions occur far less frequently than among the eleven Western States, the eleven Eastern States, the four Border States...
...hours. Sometimes you can win him in a trice with a ponderous period. And tiresome though it is to turn out ponderous periods, life is often brightened by the gorgeous retorts of the heathen. For example, this is the answer one Hooverizer got when he approached an insurgent South Dakota editor: "I am for Hoover just about as far as you can throw our party elephant by the pin feathers with your arm broken in four places...
Nebraska, South Dakota. Two tornadoes struck rural districts of Nebraska and South Dakota. Eleven were killed, among them Schoolmistress Rooney, who was tossed 300 feet. Estimated property damage...
...Roman Catholic Church on parade, therefore, in Sydney last week. To fast-growing Sydney, largest city in Australia, capital of New South Wales, came many a priest, many a pilgrim. From Naples came Bonaventura Cardinal Cerreti, witty envoy of the Pope; from...
...University of Pennsylvania three out of five students have ringworm. Half the adult population of the U. S., and practically everybody in the South, has suffered from the disease at some time or another. So annoying is this situation that Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming of the U. S. Health Service last week sent a special bulletin to the health officer of every community...