Word: synonyms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago. In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage. Deneen and his candidate, Judge John A. Swanson, survived bombs exploded on their doorsteps and routed Crowe utterly. Mayor Thompson had vowed to resign if this happened but, of course, did not resign. The Small-Smith-Thompson-Crowe slogan, "America First," was as thoroughly exposed as the Ku Klux Klan. Libel suits and coroner's inquests were on Thompsonism...
...Lindbergh" is a synonym for aviation, the meaning of which is much more readily understood by the youth of today, therefore why have an aviation week at all? Why not make it "Lindbergh Week" so that the tie between this hero's name and aviation may never be severed...
...first two, there was little to be said. It was true that John P. Morgan, the big, impressive, genial 61-year-old, Episcopal banker, whose name in every language is a synonym for the power of wealth, had never before accepted a principal office in an enterprise which his banking house had financed.* Many people have observed the increasing potency of silver-haired, 65-year-old, Catholic James Augustine Farrell, whose father was a New Haven shipowner...
...scenario writer makes it possible for Takla to evade both the unpleasant death being prepared for her in the lama monastery and the imminent misconduct of her kidnapper. A glad conclusion becomes, thus, inevitable and the picture stops. Famed Gilda Gray, whose name has always been a synonym for that improper motion of the body, the shimmy, is to be seen whirling about in the innocuous curves of the devil dance. While she is not dancing, she makes no effort to wriggle out of her responsibilities. Whenever, in the course of the plot, she is called upon for a momentary...
...recent years has become a synonym for 'Sailor...