Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party arrived at Hutchinson, Kans., and drove out six miles to the farm of Chester O'Neal. There, with Senator Arthur Capper (leader of the farm bloc), William Allen White and Governor Davis standing by, the President in white flannel trousers, white doeskin shoes, blue coat and straw hat, shocked sheaves of wheat after the approved methods of Kansas and Ohio...
That favorite sport of American journalism ? straw balloting ? attracted another follower, The New Republic...
...straw vote habit in journalism...
...average New Yorker (if there is one) the theatre is apt to mean a playhouse within walking distance, at least, of Broadway, and the theatrical season a period that begins in the Fall with the appearance of an A. H. Woods bedroom-farce and ends shortly after straw-hat-day with a wave of musical comedies. Of course the a. N. Y. has heard about stock companies-but, if he reads theatrical reviews, he doubtless connects them with the grand old days...
KANSAS CITY, May 26.--The annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs closed successfully today with a parade through the city, a field day at the Kansas City. Country Club and the annual banquet. Two hundred graduates, equipped with enormous straw sombreros and crimson bandanas, paraded through the business section in the morning to the strains of Harvard marches, exchanged cheers with assembled members of the Kansas City, Princeton and Yale Clubs and then took automobiles to the Country Club, where they played baseball and golf, watched a polo game and enjoyed a big barbecue...