Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leviathans was Ahab." His was a terrific pride, and a consuming lust for vengeance on the White Whale. Moby Dick, who in malice, or in play, or accident, or instinctive self-defense had bitten off Ahab's leg and left him humiliated, crippled, to hobble on a stump of whale ivory. "Ever since that almost fatal encounter Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him not only all his bodily woes but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations...
...Investigation. When a wise man finds himself lost in a forest of political controversy, he sits on a stump and sends out friends to scout for bearings. That is what President Hoover will do on Prohibition. In the campaign, voters asked him what his position was, what his plans were. Not sure himself, he replied: "I do not favor the repeal of the 18th Amendment. I stand for the efficient enforcement of the law. . . . Grave abuses have occurred. An organized searching investigation of fact and causes can alone determine the wise method of correcting them." Congress last week voted...
Lucius Nathan Littauer was born in Stump City, in upstate New York, in 1859. Twenty-six years later Stump City was named Gloversville, because of the gloves that the Littauers, father and son, made there. Now Son Littauer, resembling "Old Paul'' von Hindenburg in a quiet way, is retired and lives in Manhattan or at Premium Point, New Rochelle, N. Y. He often goes back to Gloversville, where everybody knows him and likes to say hello...
...other consideration be of some weight? If placed in the midst of, and more or less obscured by other buildings which crowd around, it cannot have the inspiring effect nor convey the significance which is desirable. Whereas on the river driveway it might stand forth somewhat like the famous Stump of old Boston and it would impress on all, on students as well as the public, that Harvard cares and stands for spiritual values. Robert Treat Paine...
...four bombings as the election approached, but they did not cause much damage and nobody bothered about them. They did not count. In Chicago an election means fun, excitement. Calliopes in the crowded Loop, red-fire in Grant Park, an almost continuous uproar in the Black Belt; 1,000 stump orators stumping, spouting, shouting on sidewalks, in public halls, in theatres, in real theatres where they have real plays. It is amazing that nobody has ever become excited about the sidewalks of Chicago, which last week were certainly the most excitable sidewalks in the world. They were more excitable, some...