Word: stump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Westphalia Princessin, Doberman pinscher, owned by Ilisa V. D. Konigstad- a dog with a sly,. Teutonic face, ribald yet alert, lifting her pointed ears sharply, pricking up the small black stump which, instead of a tail, adorned the termination of her vertebrae...
...time for us Democrats here to be facing the music. There is no sense or manhood or sportsmanship in trying to find excuses and explanations, in whimpering that the people have been deceived or bought; that the organization of the Republicans is invincible; that what worn and stale stump-speech slang calls 'the interests' are too strong or our foes too cunning for us, or in raking about for stray scraps of comfort or loose fragments of rainbow hopes here and there-mostly there. We have been beaten in two successive general elections by huge and increasing majorities...
...tall, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, leather-lunged, he is one of the best rough-and-tumble stump speakers in the country and an unrivaled storyteller. Not a profound man, not a polished man, not a studious man, he is shrewd, vigorous, alert and likable, with his humbuggery and sincerity mixed in about equal proportions. He believes in at least half of the things he says, which is a pretty good proportion for a Senator...
...later, his ability had won him admission to the bar; and he went that same year as a delegate to the State Convention of his Party. Two years later still, the historic campaign of '60 brought his persuasive tongue out of the law office and put him upon the stump. A year later, his golden tongue swept him into the New York State Legislature, although he ran in a Democratic district. Two years again passed, and making two speeches a day for six weeks running, he won the post of Secretary of State of New York...
From more than one quarter, the comment was made that there was no better Republican campaigner on the stump than Charles E. Hughes. He spoke widely from the Atlantic to the Middle West-in New York, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, Kansas City, as well as in a number of other cities. With the comment on his effectiveness went the remark that he was a better advocate of Mr. Coolidge than he had been of Mr. Hughes eight years earlier...