Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Final returns in the Collier's straw vote showed (in round numbers...
More significant than the Collier's straw vote is a poll just taken by The Literary Digest. Granting (with most political vaticinations) that President Harding will be renominated by the Republicans, The Digest took a poll of leading Democratic politicians to see whom they favored for the Democratic nominations. They were asked to pick a first, second and third choice...
...stage of 164,514 ballots, the straw vote taken by Collier's Weekly for Presidential preferences, showed the following results in round numbers...
...Lady Astor arrived in the House clad in a blue Peter Pan frock, with a white organdie collar, white cuffs and straw mushroom...
...blue Peter Pan frock, a white organdie collar, white cuffs, a straw mushroom...