Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a horse, Ulysses loosed destruction over Troy. In 1871, Mrs. O'Leary did the same for Chicago with a petulant cow, which shattered an oil lantern in its straw-lined stall. Flames ran amuck, ravaged the straggling town, left it blackened, hollow, crisp. Disconsolate, penniless, young Potter Palmer stood in the ashes of his home. Suddenly, where was Bertha? Bertha had borrowed a buggy, careened into a nearby village, wired New York for an extension of credit. New York agreed, and-phoenix-like-Chicago and the Potter Palmers soared together...
...produce the type of discipline which Professor Morison describes as characteristic of Oxford: "His (the student's) individuality is respected, but he is gently guided along the path of self-development and well being. Here it is sink or swim, with only an overworked 'baby dean' as a straw to the drowning man. I, for one, prefer this robust if sometimes un-salutary neglect...
National Chairman Raskob received from one W. H. Ridgeway, of San Antonio, Tex., an "appeal to your spirit of sportsmanship.'' Mr. Ridgeway thought that Nominee Hoover was going to carry "every State in the Union except Louisiana, Mississippi. Georgia and South Carolina" (The Literary Digest's straw vote predicted that Nominee Hoover would carry Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina). He asked Mr. Raskob to get these States to ''fall in line" and "make it unanimous...
...election day draws near and the straw votes pile up, the business of picking the winner becomes more active. According to the Literary Digest poll, which furnishes the most impressive returns, Hoover has a majority in 44 states with 488 electoral votes, while Smith has only 4 states with 43 votes. Already Republicans are claiming that it is all over but the shouting...
...hundred fifty four Harvard students cast ballots in College Humor's first college straw vote, the balloting being divided, Hoover 99, Smith 55, according to a statement from that magazine released yesterday...