Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main, Saltacres is a study in novelists' materials. Reeds, rushes, weatherbeaten barns, pebbled beaches, a whitish sea, gulls and blackbirds gliding and skimming from foam-splashed boulder to knotted and salt-rimed stump, broken love to the tattoo of sympathetic rains and a pathological religions mania to the cresendo of a venegeful thunderstorm, delight the eye and, chaotically enough, provoke the emotions but the relation of these things to a masterful novel is less than that of sand to granite. Not only should, in this case the parts or particles cohere more closely but there might well be other elements...
...World mistakenly said last week, Senator James E. Watson. Opposing Senator Watson last autumn was Democrat Albert Stump...
Always a crusader, Mrs. Felton has taken the stump for Prohibition, woman suffrage, maternity laws. She has made many a famed utterance, some of which are: "Our government permits children to many who know no more about raising a family than the loose straws in a last year's bird's nest...
...that the best scheme to maintain prestige is to fight for principle, last week invented another for which it will (editorially) battle: Purchase of Western Railroads by Western Investors.* Thus, while President Ralph Budd of the Great Northern and Harry Byram of the reorganized Milwaukee (old name: St. Paul) stump the west concerning the merger of the northwestern railroads, the Tribune argued: "What this [west] section does require from its railroads and what it is not receiving in proper measure, is prompt response to public demands for service. Translated for the railroad stockholder that means prompt response to the opportunity...
...does it beautifully. Then I like to sit in the gallery and listen to debates in Congress, particularly in the Senate. Some say that I could be elected Senator from Ohio, if I said the word. However, I am too busy now caring for Paulina to think of stump speaking...