Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slim Curtiss was called in to check the tide but one more Terrier run came in when Artie Johns was unable to handle a fast grounder. A pinch hitter relieved Curtiss in the eighth and Johns finished the game on the mound...
This jaunty comment made by Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee was his summing up of the Illinois State primaries, which last week were the first in the huge tide of State elections that will send 435 Representatives and 34 Senators to Washington this autumn...
...institutions, depends a very great deal on Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The old rule that Depression makes it easier to turn the rascals out has never yet been tested by a regime which has spent money like Franklin Roosevelt's. While deepening Depression should presumably help turn the political tide this year, it might not if the Administration turned on another huge spending program such as last week seemed a fairly likely prospect. Last week, Practical Politician Joe Martin's chief complaint was strikingly familiar: "You just can't tell what that fellow in the White House will...
...plain-clothes men were assigned to follow them, Messrs. Campbell & McGee donned frock coats and silk hats, hired an accordion player, a saxophonist and two cars, had the band play Me and My Shadow while they paraded through the streets trailed by the humiliated detectives. Last autumn the tide turned. About the time Mr. McGee was being literally thrown out of his union job, Cleveland's Safety Director Eliot Ness, after a four-month investigation, got the cronies indicted on a charge of extorting $1,200 from a Cleveland restaurant owner by holding up the installation of plate-glass...
Clever Mr. Lever countered with "Vote for Lever and dam the flowing tide." Lever won the election...