Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more eloquent and convincing in defending democracy than he ever was in attacking it. If anything unifies the U. S. enough to justify its being called a nation, he says, it is Jefferson's slogan: "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." Worn smooth by innumerable stump speakers, preached by thousands who did not practice them, these are nevertheless revolutionary words; they involve a great moral principle, imply a belief in plain citizens, and a greater degree of economic justice than any nation has ever possessed. If everyone acted upon them "we should not be saying that...
Valley of the Giants surrounds its heroic theme with robust climaxes as huge, numerous, tightly packed and ancient as the rings on a redwood stump. They include a free-for-all fight wherein a redheaded lumberjack named Ox (Alan Hale) demolishes a barroom singlehanded; a wrestle to the death between Bickford and Morris on the edge of a precipice; a train wreck from which hero rescues heroine by a margin narrow enough to make nervous cinemaddicts avert their eyes; a dynamite explosion, an exhibition of fly-casting, a minor log jam and a conflagration. All this action takes place...
Whenever weary Congress adjourns, most of its members will hotfoot for home not only for vacation but also to stump their bailiwicks for reelection. With Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt as vocal as ever, wives of Congressmen have apparently begun to feel they should follow her example. This week, despite elaborate attempts at secrecy, it leaked out that a number of them have been taking elocution lessons so they will be ready when asked to say a few words "back home." Conducted by Mrs. Hugh Butler, long a teacher of public speaking at George Washington University, the classes have been held weekly...
Wassermann, having bandaged the leg stump, handed the man to observers on the roof of the hotel, inched off the narrow girder, took his patient to City Hospital. There a surgeon re-amputated Marion Carey's left stump above the knee so that he may wear an artificial leg with comfort...
Today is Today. Today is Today, Today. Today is. By "Sadi Sadi" (Mr. Levy), a burlesque of sadistic art, showing a woman with her arm cut off and a set of malevolent teeth fixed in the stump...