Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disgust a News official settled out of court for a reputed $18,000. On the day of the settlement judge Johnson bought a big new limousine and cruised up & down Jackson's Capitol Street, derisively honking as he passed the Daily News building. Said the Governor on the stump last summer: "I'm still spending that buzzard's money. I'm liable to be spending some more of it too when this campaign is over...
...ornery rivals go partners on a stump-sucking, tobacco-chewing, rum-drinking mule, bedevil each other for 30 years by further corrupting the mule in ways that will cause most trouble to the other...
...Before leaving Gary," Sendak stated. "I often campaigned by chasing fire engines. Wherever a crowd gathered I would start a stump speech and hand out campaign literature. Now that I am away from the scene, I have to depend on the work which is being carried on by friends and supporters who have organized a number of 'Sendak for Joint State Representative' clubs...
...delicate work of suturing, or sewing up, begins. . . . The surgeon weaves the suture neatly around the base of the [sterilized] appendix stump so that it may be drawn closed in much the same manner you would close a tobacco sack. Next he will fold in the end of the appendix with a cross-stitch on top of it so there will be nothing left to cause trouble, such as adhesions...
...Presidential pretender out to out-stump Tom Dewey and all the rest is the Surprise Party's nominee-Gracie Allen, witling half of the radio & cinema team of Burns & Allen. Unannounced to audiences, last week Gracie sashayed into a half-dozen other people's radio programs to air her politicocomic aims...