Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue have been Wet. And it is even likely that Mr. Pinchot got some normally Wet votes among the miners. The factors which tend to emphasize the Wetness of Vare's victory are that in Philadelphia 14 of the 15 silk-stocking wards, which ordinarily the local machine is sure to find opposing it, turned round and voted for Mr. Vare, and that in the whole state, despite the opposition of nearly every newspaper, despite the fact that the Philadelphia machine has little power outside its bailiwick, there were enough votes to give Vare a handsome plurality. It does...
...advantage for me. The people in the car will think you are the Governor, and as the Governor of New Jersey isn't very popular just now, I'll get all the pleasant bows intended for the more acceptable editor of the Ladies' Home Journal." Sure enough, a lady in one of the cars they passed through drove Mr. Wilson into the washroom convulsed with glee by bowing and saluting...
...Etsll iws nel lum cmeht," as meaning, "The municipality cannot aid." The Post and Mail, owned by the McMullen brothers, promptly stole the story in toto, were chagrined to have all Chicago told that the "Serbian" phrase was the printing in reverse of, "The McMullens will steal this sure...
...Bradley's silks - he was Bagen-baggage, running-mate of Bubbling Over. Mr. W. R. Coe looked out, ashen-faced, from his box; Pompey had failed, there was no doubt of it; he had broken at the mile-turn. Bubbling Over was out in front, a sure winner, and his striding stable-brother was closing up behind him, passing the faltering Pompey, cutting down Rockman, nosing out Rhinock...
Lethargic folk, who have not read Admiral Lord Fisher's Memories, are sure to jump when Mr. Bakeless reminds them that as long ago as 1907 "it seemed to Admiral Fisher [then First Sea Lord] simply a sagacious act on England's part to seize the German fleet when it was so very easy of accomplishment . . . probably without bloodshed...