Word: tilter
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...great that the Mayor, shielded by two plainclothesmen, was forced to retreat through the fist-shaking, shrieking crowd to the street. There he told his secretary: "A few more talks like that and we'd wipe out these Communists." Pittsburghers gloomily shook their heads. A born windmill tilter, William McNair punctuated 30 unprosperous years at the bar with a monotonous series of espousals of lost causes. A Bryan stumpster, he ran for everything unsuccessfully until Pittsburgh, as normally Republican as Mecca is Mohammedan, threw out its corrupt and long-lived G. O. P. machine last autumn (TIME...