Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberal Club, in a straw vote conducted among its members, elected Alfred E. Smith of New York as its choice for next President of the United States. Liberal Club members voted by the preferential system instead of naming a nominee from each party...
...warm afternoon last week in St. Petersburg, Fla., appeared on the face of Charles C. Davis of Columbus, Ohio, and was not noticed because it also appeared on the face of his opponent, a young man named Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan. Without taking off his cracked and faded straw hat Davis tossed horseshoes at an iron stake driven into the ground 40 feet from where he stood. Duryee was not quite so calm; the crowd seemed to bother him and before he got going Davis had a lead of nearly 20 points which he held...
...straw vote privately held, last week, among members of the Secretariat of the League of Nations was reported to show an 85% concurrence with the much mooted project of moving the seat of the League to a larger metropolis. Vienna has loomed as the most likely choice, and Chancellor Ignaz Seipel has welcomed the scheme in a statement that he is "not opposed" (TIME, Feb. 27). Last week several League straw voters were reported to have complained that "the atmosphere of a small town [Geneva] is stifling" and that Swiss society at Geneva has not appreciably bestirred itself to welcome...
...invented forty years ago by a French nobleman, Count de Chardonnet. Practically any cellulose substance can be transformed into it,-cotton linters (tiny shreds of cotton fibre formerly wasted), wood pulp, corn stalks, straw...
...Smart details: a) ingenious, decorated sleeves; b) tiers and flares; c) fluttery bows, ties, scarfs; d) elaborate shoes of exotic leathers or cloths; e) hats mostly of straw, with some felt & straw combinations, many worn with a new nose veil effect...