Word: stump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...craftsmanship of the Dewey campaign became evident. It was seen that he had been wise, in the weeks when he alone was on the stump, to get well-planted the broad bases and main points of his positive program. This job was necessary work, but also, to a great many voters, somewhat dull. Dewey's shrewd timing became apparent after Oklahoma City; with his main program staked out, he was now free, in the crucial weeks, to concentrate on the much livelier business of attacking Roosevelt's record-which he described as "terribly...
...table and drank real coffee and cognac in sherry glasses. Sibelius asked for a large glass so his shaking hands wouldn't spill the cognac. The glass never came. He said he had one bottle of whiskey left, but was saving it. He had great difficulty lighting the stump of a Finnish Balkan tobacco cigar...
...Campaign. Al Smith, the first U.S. Catholic to run for President as the nominee of a major party, went out to stump the nation. He was met by one of the most virulent whispering campaigns in U.S. history. Thousands muttered that he was building a tunnel to connect the White House with the Vatican...
...among Finnish politicos and businessmen, Scott found a single-minded determination to fight to the last Finn. "Their attitude towards the Russians is summed up in an old Finnish 'magic song': Just this much they will get from me: what an ax gets from a stone, a stump from slippery ice, or death from an empty room...
...good war picture is a fine thing to see, but one which is obviously a large piece of Hollywoodized propaganda is difficult to stomach. Perhaps it's the monotony of seeing one atrocity after another dragging its bloody stump across the screen, but this corner just thinks the show is poorer than average...