Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prejudice is a slippery thing and politics a more slippery. Every one knew that degenerate anti-Smith appeals were being made and that they greatly helped Hooverism. But Democratic Chairman Raskob was hard put to it to expose any Republican officials actually abetting them...
After reaching the end of the trail to Tom Jones Mountain in the Ramapo Range, I met up with a fellow hiker who had spent the night there. The first thing I noticed lying among his equipment was a copy of TIME. I also had my copy with me, and it was not long before we were discussing matters in general...
...Hoover knows it. Mr. Coolidge knows it. And so does Governor Smith. The difference is that Governor Smith frankly tells the truth about it. ... Now why can't we be perfectly honest and candid and frank with each other on this subject? . . . It's not a new thing for public men of character to oppose Prohibition. Roosevelt did it, and Taft and Wilson...
When distinguished Editor James Louis Garvin had well perused this charge, he wrote: "In the whole farrago, there is not one grain, not one atom, not one little jot nor tincture of truth. No such stipulation exists. The American gentleman concerned is incapable of suggesting any thing like it. The King's subject concerned [Editor Garvin] is known to be among the last men alive to whom such a stipulation could be safely breathed...
Last week a silver arrow darted suddenly from the East (Roosevelt Field, L. I.), not over 500 feet from the ground, curved gracefully around Mines Field, Los Angeles, settled gently upon the turf. The thing that over 150 patient watchers had been awaiting, trembling with mingled anticipation and dread, had happened. The weary, perilous miles from coast to coast had been covered in 24 hours and 51 minutes. This was 2 hours faster than it had ever been done before...