Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey, a cool politician, appeared to have outsmarted himself. He had played coy a little too long. Six months ago, he was first told of plans to enter a slate of Dewey-pledged delegates in Wisconsin's Presidential primary. Last week, before Wendell Willkie announced that he would stump the state in person, the New York Governor could have withdrawn his name and maintained intact his pose of aloofness to party leadership. But the Dewey delegates, though forewarned of his intentions, had filed their entries last week before Dewey released the news that he had sent each...
...kept on. He never lost his smile either. I was putting a tourniquet on his stump when shrapnel cut up his hands. Some of it hit me, but the skipper took the brunt...
After eight months of noisily stirring the Republican Party into world-consciousness, the Chicago-born Republican Postwar Policy Association last week as noisily closed its doors. Out separate exits walked Publicity Director Leo Casey, to plump for Wendell Willkie for President, and Founder Deneen A. Watson, to stump for Eric A. Johnston for President...
...armed bailiff who was a personality in his own right. Seurat père lived away from home wrapped in "strange religious practices," but consented to dine at his wife's table each Tuesday. On these occasions he screwed knives and forks into the stump of his artificial arm and carved "with speed and even transport, muttons, filets, small game and fowl...
...Second Part, usually done before a curtain while the first act scenery was changed, was a vaudeville known as the Olio (supposedly derived from the Spanish "olla" as in olla podrida, meaning hodgepodge). A regular feature was the stump speech by the Black Demosthenes (or someone of similar title) on such timely topics as "Carrie Nation, the Masher." The Third Part, or "Afterpiece," was often a satire on a current play or opera...