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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jabberwocky that is politics in the State of Illinois there issued last week a frabjous thing that was supposed to spell R-e-f-o-r-m but which, upon closest inspection, would not come any closer to real sense than Roefmr or Mrrofe. The letters were all there. Popular sentiment had been convulsively aroused. But the newly upheaved anagram did not articulate intelligently...
Among the Republicans, it was a spectacular primary even for spectacular Illinois. It was the Republicans who tried to spell Reform. About 100,000 Democrats got excited and joined in the G. O. P. melee, confusing things more than ever. The Republican primary had the following results and implications...
...each, with two baggage cars and four diners. He wrote to the papers, asking that audiences attend his performances in a special mood of gravity and that they refrain from wearing bright colored clothes, lest there should be discord in the earnest surroundings of Holy Week, and lest the spell of a "musical masterpiece" be injured. Further, Mr. Gabrilowitch said this: "In all the years of my musical experience I have never found as much joy and inspiration in any artistic task as in the study and preparation of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. The performance . . . represents the work...
...newstand-buyer of TIME wrote you in gloating terms, told how he gave your publication publicity by calling for his copy at the magazine stand here at the Statler Hotel, in a loud voice, and that when the girl attendant handed him a copy of the Hearst Times, he spelled it out for her in a loud voice. There seems to be no reason for such blatant, goatlike manners. If he used such mannersin ordering a copy of Liberty, or Snappy Stories, it could be understood, but not with TIME. Furthermore, I have been buying magazines and newspapers...
...sold out the U. S. farmer to the English. He depressed wheat prices. He killed the McNary-Haugen bill. Besides he is ineligible for the Presidency. He would spell eight years of misery...