Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Textile mill strikes flared up last week like fire in broom straw across the face of the industrial South. Though their causes were not directly related, they were all symptomatic of larger stirrings in that rapidly developing region. Labor troubles first developed in Eastern Tennessee, were followed by strikes in South Carolina and later in North Carolina...
...Straw Votes. Just as the citizens of the U.S. have "primaries" to tell them in advance of a Presidential Election whether the prevailing winds are Republican or Democratic, so the Englishman reads the signs of the times in "by-elections." Thus simple addition of the results of the last night by-elections since the General Election of 1924 shows that the Labor Party has won 93,000 votes, the Conservative or present Government Party 78,000, and the Liberals 58,000. On their face these figures−not to be bet on−seem to prophesy that the Conservative Cabinet...
...Russell, the stud groom of Edward of Wales's stable stood at one side of the straw-covered arena of the Leicester House Repository at Melton Mowbray in the heart of England's hunting country. Rain was drumming on the roof and a dozen policemen strove to hold back the crowd. Inside the rows of boxes around the ring were jammed to suffocation and smartly dressed women clung perilously to railings. The Prince of Wales's 12 hunters were being sold...
...Chevalier costume?un smoking (dinner jacket) and straw hat ? is a vestigial remnant of the days before the War when, as Guest Contributor William Bolitho of the New York World says: "Young men dressed like this in the evenings and had fun. . . . Look at Chevalier's queer straw hat with the same shiver as you see the Cap of Liberty stuck up in Tammany Hall, or the Crown of England. There is human history...
...understood that yesterday's developments were brought to their culmination only by the action of the Lampoon itself. The attitude of the University towards the Lampoon, it was learned, was one of indifferent quiescence as long as the Lampoon held to innocuous humor, but when the straw that broke the camel's back, in the form of Lampy's most recent indiscretions entered the situation, the college authorities reached the conclusion that, foreclosure of the mortgage was the only action compatible with Harvard dignity...