Word: swept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have done. It is even in the hair ? and the hair is important in a LaFollette. Old Bob had a grey, upstanding mane that shook and tossed and needed sweeping back between periods of an oration. Young Bob's mane is thick and gets swept back between periods. But it is soft and curly. Young Phil's mane is thick and straight and it tosses higher and harder, for Young Phil is the greater orator. He did speechmaking on the 1924 trip while Young Bob did staffwork behind the scenes. He went in for debating at college, when...
...world's toughest schedule--one of the strongest teams in years. Those two phrases sum up rather accurately the consensus of cadet opinion concerning the 1928 Army football season. This opinion has been more or less prevalent since the first September practices; it crystalized when the Army swept over Boston University in the season's opener; it weathered the Southern Methodist scare, and now is stronger than ever...
...attack and in producing the University scores. The first touchdown followed Grant's interception of a Freshman aerial thrust, when a series of off-tackle slants by G. L. Graves '31 and Grant carried the ball to the Freshman 22-yard stripe. T. F. Mason '30 then swept around left end for the touchdown. Captain A. E. French '29 went into the play, scoring the extra point from placement...
Passing through Nominee Curtis's home state was great sport. The Brown Derby swept and waved at every platform pause. People said the crowd at Topeka was "as big as Bryan's"; bigger, even, than Senator Curtis got when he went home a Nominee?but then, everyone in Topeka knows what Mr. Curtis looks like. The Brown Derby was something of a curiosity as well as an enthusiasm...
...storm of censure had arisen on both sides of the party lines. The Republican New York Evening Post had said: "When she is permitted to make a stump speech . . . she strikes deeply at respect for impartiality of law." Methodists in other States had flayed their Ohio brethren for being swept off their feet...