Word: tildenized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last three generations?since the close of the Civil War?the Democratic party has named eleven men for the presidency. Six of them?Seymour. Greeley, Tilden, Cleveland, Parker, and Smith? were New Yorkers. Three of the six? Seymour, Tilden, and Smith?have been conspicuous members of Tammany Hall...
...Samuel J. Tilden had a clear majority of the popular vote cast in 1876. and a majority of the electoral vote until the honest result was nullified by the infamous report made by a 'returned board' manipulated by the Republican national administration...
...This is the most interesting and exciting campaign I can remember since the Tilden-Hayes campaign of '76. And yet the students as a whole do not seem to take much active interest When we were in college, everybody discussed politics all the time. Every-one ate in Memorial Hall then, and we had some pretty lively times. Politics was the one thing which was dominant throughout the campaign, and up to a few days before inauguration, when election was finally settled...
...after page of pirate ship packages of candy next to linoleum and bathroom tiles of telephone romances next to ice-box detective stories--until infidels become dizzy. The hierarchy particularly glories in converts to the cohorts of the faithful who worship Advertisa, through the medium of cigarettes. Here Bill Tilden. Charlie Paddock, Amelia Earhart proclaim their remunerative devotion to the goddess (though Amelia did send her $10,000 reward to Byrd for his Antartic expedition). Soon Elnatein will be sold for "Not a cough in a carload"; and James Joyce's books, because "They are mild--yet they satisfy." Morning...
Everyone knows about Vincent Richards, who used to beat Tilden more often than anyone else till he became one of Cold Cash Pyle's pro's. Nobody, in the U. S. at least, seemed to know much about Karel Kozeluh. Admitted by most experts who have seen him play to be the greatest tennis player in the world, Karel Kozeluh prefers the game of hockey at which he is almost equally expert. He is a member of a family famous in Prague for their sporting activities; when 12, he had saved up enough money which he made from...