Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bandwagon of a Presidential candidate parading the streets for Calvin Coolidge? The answer of observers is that "Calvin's Campaign" is unique, that it treads unostentatiously, that it advances itself by little things: unexpected invitations to call on the Chief Executive; White House answers to the letters of Tom, Dick and Harry, written with flattering conscientiousness; broad-minded patronage; a keen little slogan, "Keep Coolidge"; the personal touch from the finger that starts so many things by pressing a little button...
Meyer is admitted to the bar, enjoys a lucrative criminal practice, joins the local Tammany organization, exchanges services with Big Jim Halloran and Little Tom Halloran, local political bosses...
...golden days of politics are no more. In the present Senate there are but two members who dress with more formality than the average business man. The two exceptions are made by the cutaways of Senator Hiram Johnson of California and Senator Tom Heflin of Alabama. In addition, Mr. Heflin affects a fancy waistcoat...
From St. Paul, Tom Gibbons (TIME, July 16) last week sent Champion Jack a challenge for another match. He was prompted to do this because he had read in a Hearst newspaper a Dempsey statement to the effect that he (Gibbons) was "too small and too old" for another fight...
...Barnum. Joice Heth, Jumbo the Great, Tom Thumb, "The Great Model of Niagara Falls, Real Water," the "Fejee Mermaid,"-yet "Hamlet without Hamlet would not be more impossible than the Museum would have been without Barnum...