Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another Socialist mayor is Mayor J. Henry Stump of Reading, Pa., honest cigarmaker. Mayor Stump and comrades, who came to power in a Milwaukee-like election sweep last November, are out to prove that the record of the first Socialist city regime in the U. S. is the triumph of a social theory as well as of individual integrity...
...Solicitor General James M. Beck, now U. S. Representative-elect Beck. ... In Reading, the Socialist Party swept the board. Tax reform was the issue. It was the most notable uprising of the kind since Milwaukee went Socialist in 1910. Of some 26,000 votes cast, Socialist J. Henry Stump, running for mayor, and his colleagues, won nearly half. Democrats and Republicans divided the other half. Said Mayor-elect Stump: "We will strive to make the future brighter for the men & women of the working class...
Presbyotia. People speak just about as fast as they hear?some 20 changes a second, said Dr. J. McKeen Cattell, editor of Science. To be heard by an audience or by people hard of hearing, one must speak distinctly and slowly, not loudly. A stump speaker's shouting is only a blur of tones to his listeners. In old people, the receiving apparatus of the ear becomes less elastic than in youth; it does not respond quickly to short waves (shrill) sounds. Words or notes of music following in fast succession run together and cannot be distinguished. The condition...
...easily, he accepts the challenge and forthwith begins another battle of the century in which every comedy gag in the versitile pair's bag of tricks is uncovered. In the end, Luke wins, of course, when the two of them roll down a declivity and Cannon-Ball meets a stump halfway down with Luke...
...stump in the rear of the temporary White House is the temporary home of Rebecca, pet presidential raccoon. One day last week Rebecca vanished. Attachés called "Rebecca! Rebecca!" Located, eventually, in a neighboring yard, Rebecca hopped from tree to tree while pursuers rushed from trunk to trunk. After two hours Rebecca, tired, permitted herself to be captured...