Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thanking you for your kindness in doing both of us a good turn...
...with difficulty and doubt over certain national problems - that is,« prohibition, farm relief and elec trical power - our opponents propose that we must thrust government a long way into the businesses which give rise to these problems. In effect they abandon the tenets of their own party and turn to State socialism. . . . We are confronted with a huge program of government in business . . . based on principles de structive of its [the "American system's"] very foundations." The three Smith proposals to which Nominee Hoover referred were in essence as follows: 1) Liquor - to give the States their choice...
There is barely enough body to the play to make the situation created ring entirely true, but this is easily over-looked as are certain confusions arising from the legal turn which is taken in the final act. The constant interplay of the frivolous with the tragic, makes one forget the obvious flaws as the audience is carried from the tittering stage to one of extreme tension...
...excitement. When several men were feeling good they would jump on a car and drive in towards Boston. They might push the conductor off the car, or else just take care of him inside. Sometimes they would get off at Central Square and drive back. No, they did not turn, the car around. They just boarded one coming-the other...
...committee in charge of the demonstration wishes to announce that everyone arriving there will be supplied with a torch, and that refreshments will probably be served in Boston. All Hoover supporters are urged to turn out for the parade which is a traditional feature of the electoral campaign at Harvard...