Word: sulking
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...breaking his candidacial silence at Des Moines and stole its share of the headlines next morning (see col. i). Democratic headquarters had repeatedly been told that a good word from the Brown Derby would swing a million votes to the party. Republican headquarters have counted on Al Smith's sulk to turn New England to Hoover. After the Albany convention it became known that Air. Smith would campaign for his party's ticket in Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, New York, New Jersey...
Achilles was a great man until he sulked in his tent. It is small wonder that the voters of Massachusetts have deserted a cause whose leaders are capable of such absurd gestures as a transcontinental sulk. Mrs. Peabody has neither faith, hope, nor charity. Anyway she has gone South. The birds are following...
Instead of flying into a temper, or sinking into a dignified sulk the "Iron Man" answered crisply...
Unity. To make plain that the party stood united and that he would be no sulk-in-tent champion, Missouri's white-crested Senator James A. Reed followed Mr. Davis with a cry for "every Democrat in the United States" to support Nominee Smith "until the last ballot is counted on election night." True, this Reed speech preceded the convention's choice of a vice president. But after Nominee Robinson was chosen, Senator Reed's congratulations contained an honest ring...
...reaching. Attendance in classes on Egyptology, Cryptology and the Italian drama drops off. Scholarship standards quiver and collapse. Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar the dismal thunder of defeat and elect to go elsewhere. Graduates and alumni (they are not identical) storm and sulk in the suburbs, write angry letters, tear up checks and send their sons to the University of Nebraska. The loss of these checks is more serious than the loss of the sons. There are always plenty of sons, but checks are ephemeral, and subject to seasonal influences. The autumn season, with...