Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, eight days before election, the Chicago Times's straw poll showed Kennelly with 58% of the votes. Even the Tribune, Root's only supporter among newspapers, admitted grudgingly that Chicago had "two good candidates...
Eight miles from our downtown office we saw one that offered for a bed a straw mat covered with an old army blanket. It had no kitchen utensils, dining-room chairs, or light fixtures. It did have a lovely fountain on a vast second-floor terrace. Price: $250 a month...
...smile was exactly the same, and the straw hat seemed to be. After 13 years, Parisian Maurice Chevalier was back in Manhattan last week in a one-man show. He can still make up in personality for what he lacks in voice, but a whole evening of Chevalier is a bit too much. He has a few good new turns, though, and they are given the works. The best of the old ones - Louise and Valentine - need only to be sung...
When an Allied search party reached the barracks at the foot of Fujiyama, they found an old straw sandal, a chopstick and a rusty can (Japanese lacking Kusunose's peculiar sense of honor had long since looted everything else). The searchers also found Kusunose's body. But it no longer faced the sacred mountain. Before he died, Kusunose had found the "strength to turn away. The diary explained why: "It would be disrespectful if I died in the presence of revered Fuji...
Adam Foster (H) defeated Straw (D) 3-1; Barrett (D) defeated Bill Wightman (H), 3-2; Parker Francis (H) defeated Harimann (D)3-1; Bob Sturgis (R) defeated Mann (D) 3-1; Sootty Stowart (H) defeated Bates (D), 3-1; Dave Shepared (H) defeated Chambers (D), 3-0; George Stovens (H) defeated Kenworthy (D), 3-1; Don O'Callaghan (H) defeated McCean (D), 3-1; Max Tuffs (H) defeated Wottrick...