Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot moves fast in the development of character and in the tautening of dramatic strains, but in locale it stays put on the edge of the great Arizona desert. Leslie Howard, an effete poet who believes himself an anachronism, a petrified stump i the midst of a petrified forest, comes upon a little bar-b-q roadhouse, the scene of all the action. There he finds Bette Davis, who confesses with an air of braggadocio passing for humility that she is nothing but a desert rat. At the same time she cannot forget that she is half French because...
...cows," during "the dance of the millions," (1919-21). when Cuban sugar sold for 22?. Of the millions he grafted then he has almost nothing left; his superb estate has fallen to ruins. Decrepit, distinguished, an old-fashioned leader, he was too weak this time to stump the country...
When the German Foreign Office loudly announced at Berlin that their London Embassy was making "the sharpest protest," Mr. Churchill was on the electioneering stump having another fling at Adolf Hitler. Soon in British Government circles the word passed that if the Realmleader was really aroused it would be impossible, all because of a potboiler, to give Mr. Churchill the Cabinet plum he has been promised...
...Mary as symbolized in the Dominion by Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir may be shrewdly guessed from a major pronouncement during the campaign by Premier Bennett. Though pro-English, a personal friend of the King, and with the warmest feelings for the Mother Country and her aristocracy, Mr. Bennett on the stump felt obliged to say to Canadians: "The Motherland is still vigorous and powerful, but it is no longer the directive machine of our national life. . . . Relationship between Canada and Great Britain still constitutes an unsolved problem...
Down from Washington had gone Senator Bilbo to stump for Candidate Hugh White in a run-off primary for Mississippi's Democratic nomination for Governor, equivalent to election. In support of Candidate Paul Johnson, Mrs. Bilbo last week issued the following signed statement...