Word: stump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perry, N. Y., Herman Strutter showed incisor marks on the stump of his wooden leg, told his neighbors that while he slept it had been gnawed off by a beaver...
With Welshman David vowing to stump all Britain with his Deal, Scot James Ramsay MacDonald faced vociferous boos in his coal mining constituency, Seaham. Apropos of his bolt from Labor to found the National Government, the stubborn Prime Minister retorted to catcalls and hisses thus...
...says, Lillian Gibson, a Tennessee hill-girl of 15, went to school at Stump Valley, near Shelbyville, started home from school- later her teacher said she came running frantically back . . . screaming, "I am going to have a baby." This is absolutely untrue, in that this little girl does not live in the hills-not a Tennessee hill-girl. There is no such school as "Stump Valley." The teacher never made the statement that the little girl said, "I am going to have a baby." These statements are untrue...
Questions. A tradition of the Supreme Court is that the Attorney General shall not be interrupted in his argument by questions from the bench. Therefore the real excitement did not begin until Mr. Cummings had finished his stump speech. Then the Justices who had asked only a few questions of the Government's opponents began to pop questions right & left at Messrs. Maclean and Reed. Some court room observers got an impression that the Justices' questions were hostile to the Government's case. Others felt that the Court, friendly to the Government's position, was trying...
...Eddie Dowling (Joseph Nelson Edward Goucher), President Roosevelt's favorite actor and head of the entertainment division of the 1932 Democratic Campaign Committee. Early last summer Eddie Dowling announced himself as a candidate for the Democratic Senatorial nomination from Rhode Island. Persuaded to abandon this ambition, he took the stump in Pennsylvania, helped swing that State to the New Deal. In turn, rich New Dealers like Vincent Astor lent a hand in promoting Mr. Dowling's new $250,000 show. At its Philadelphia premiere, Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor-elect Earle & friends were on hand to cheer their theatrical colleague...