Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sending bread to find drowned bodies occurs in Tom Sawyer and also in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. When Huck, escaped from his father after the latter has kidnapped him from Widow Douglas, runs away to Jackson's Island leaving signs of a foul murder, the townsfolk first fire cannon over the Mississippi River to try to raise his supposed corpse by detonation ; then, hiding on the island, Huck sees them throw loaves of bread into the current. As the loaves float down to him, Huck fishes them in, takes out the plugs, shakes dabs of quicksilver...
Georgia Democratic voters renominated Senator Walter Franklin George, able successor to "Tom" Watson, and rejected Congressman William David Upshaw for a fourth congressional term...
...nation tried to like him, too. In 1904, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom's squeaking tan shoes paced the floors of Manhattan's Hoffman House. He slapped the back of August Belmont, swapped yarns with Colonel Clayton of Alabama, Jim Griggs of Georgia and John R. McLean of Ohio, best-dressed man at the convention. But the Democrats had had but one U. S. President* since before the Civil War, and Judge Alton B. Parker, Democratic nominee for 1904, did not increase the list...
Overseer Taggart returned home with his sheen but little dimmed by a Roosevelt victory. Curiously, inexplicably he has retained his power-one of the oldtime "Bosses" who figure in a national way. With Charles F. Murphy (Tammany), and Roger Sullivan (Illinois), Tom Taggart in 1912 manoeuvred so as to control apparently the balance of power in the famed Baltimore Convention, to the academic Mr. Wilson's distaste. Indicted in 1915 for election frauds, he nevertheless was appointed Senator by Governor Ralston the next year to fill the unexpired term of Senator Shively. Again in 1924 politicians journeyed to French...
...recently this same French Lick Springs and the neighboring town of West Baden were mentioned in Edna Ferber's new novel-Show Boat. A famed gambling house in the vicinity was likewise mentioned-was referred to as "Tom Taggart's place." It had been often similarly spoken of before and the whole question taken up before the courts which had completely acquitted Mr. Taggart. People marvelled at Miss Ferber's statement that she "desired above all to avoid further publicity," for the affair looked like a shrewd stunt to make Show Boat re-Ferberate through the land...