Word: trammel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about to make my point. . " . 2. I am now making my point. ... 3. I have just made my point"-time-honored prescription for effective exposition. No such precepts trammel Thornton Wilder, apparently indifferent to getting his point across. Says he in a luminous foreword to 16 playlets, "I have composed some forty of these plays, for I had discovered a literary form that satisfied my passion for compression. Since the time when I began to read I had become aware of the needless repetition, the complacency in most writing." The form he discovered requires but three minutes and three characters...
Florida is said to be "modernized" politically. Wealthy Republicans from the North have changed many things. But last week, Florida's Democrats demonstrated that they, at least, have not changed. Governor John W. Martin competed for the Senate seat of Park Trammel, comrade...
Alabama's curious Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope. Senator Trammel emerged untrammeled. He beat Governor Martin by some 30,000 votes. Anti-Smith convention delegates were likewise elected. And, in the Fourth Congressional District, U. S. Representative William J. Sears lost out to Tradition as embodied in the 43-year-old daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, "The Little Commoner." A War nurse, Chautauqua lecturer, energetic personality, Mrs. Owen laid stress upon her own abilities rather than her father's fame...
John S. Thompson, Wisconsin alumni secretary (quoting an earlier resolution of Wisconsin regents) : " 'Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state university of Wisconsin should ever encourage that fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone truth may be found...
...consideration was that Mr. Stone was confirmed as an Associate Justice, 71 to 6. The only Senators who voted against him were Heflin and Trammel (Democrats), Norris and Frazier (Insurgent Republicans), Shipstead and Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Laborites). Senators Wheeler and Walsh, both of Montana, asked to be excused from voting. With the exception of Messrs. Norris and Frazier (and Senator LaFollette, now in Florida for his health, but who, it was announced, would have voted against Mr. Stone), the Insurgent Republicans lined up with their Regular colleagues and with the bulk of the Democrats to settle the matter decisively...