Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Julius Caesar and Boss Tweed ... Cleopatra and Coolidge ... Shelley and Trader Horn ... the flood of biographies comes pouring in out of the publishers' presses. Chaliapin and Bismarck ... Napoleon and His Women Friends ... Robespierre and Uncle Joe Cannon ... with every anecdote that ever murmured about them in five point type. All the state secrets the private correspondence, the family albums, the unkind word and the billet doux that was lost before it could be committed to the flames...
...Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's tirade against the Tiger of Tammany and the ghost of Tweed incarnate in Governor Smith was not only untrue, it was political blunder of the worst kind. It is better for the opposition not to meet Smith face to face but rather to direct Fabian warfare on his friends, relations, and religion...
Having finished his speech, the Vice President attended a luncheon, then changed to a brown checked tweed suit and grey fedora hat, watched a ball game in which the Boston Nationals defeated the world's champion St. Louis Nationals...
...defeated second team lined up as follows: White, La Rue, p.; Hart, c.; Tweed, 1b.; O'Neil, 2b.; Devens, 3b.; Beckerman, s.s.; Olney, l.f.; Shine, c.f.; Smart...
...next winter, Captain Donald McMillan visits the frigid shores of Labrador he will conceivably see a few native malamutes mushing in tweed knickers, full dress vests and starched Arrow collars, and touching up their huskies with squash racquets...