Word: stump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the poison they sell for liquor nowadays. I know of things too terrible to tell-hip liquor at dances, lovers' lanes, roadhouses, increasing illegitimacy. And I have a daughter 16 years old." Illinoisans were amused, amazed, intrigued. "Boss" Brennan had jumped from the back room to the stump. What was he doing running for public office? All his life he had avoided it. Born in Cayuga County,* New York, in 1865, he earned his first dollar in a coal mine in Braidwood, 111. Miners probably decided that George Brennan would make a success of life when he lost...
...Government has on file other documents besides those that provide for the suppression of disorder. There is for instance the Constitution, which guarantees to freemen the right to meet and voice their opinions. Next day, in Garfield, N. J., Mr. Thomas climbed into the crotch of an appletree stump and put the Riot Act to the test...
Republicans Democrats James E. Watson- William Cullop: Claris Adams George Rausch John E. Frederick L. Ert Slack Albert Stump L. William Curry...
Returning to London, "der alte Jude" tish-toshed with the Queen, billet-douxed his grandmothers-in-love, plunged into affairs with Egypt, Afghanistan, South Africa. But death, defeat and Gladstone were upon him. In the elections in 1880, Gladstone introduced stump oratory to British democracy. Through his campaign in the constituency of Midlothian he appealed to the country. Economy for those at home, freedom for oppressed nations abroad-finance and Christian idealism?these were his two topics. In the battle of Midlothian, he temporarily buried Disraeli's glory under an unprecedented Liberal victory. "Nothing more than trouble and trial await...
...SHOW-OFF?The man to whom every family gathering is a meeting of the world and every easy chair is a stump from which to make a speech...