Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...David Lloyd-George is worried, say the newspapers. A German moving picture, produced as propaganda for the German "naked culture" movement is about to be exhibited in England; and one of the most interesting parts of the film depicts Mr. Lloyd-George, soberly clad in tweed golfing togs, surrounded by an indecorus mob of nude athletes of both sexes. Just how he was inveigled into this pose is not stated. However, the famous statesman doesn't want constituents to connect him with unconventionality, and is doing his best to prevent the film from being shown in England...
...Tweed Knickers...
...have more honest elections, the very root of the working of our institutions. . . . There is far greater honesty in public service than there was half a century ago. The excesses and frauds of the Tweed Ring would be impossible today. In the Congress of the United States, if any man be suspected of crookedness, he is a marked...
...high tariff; he had often flayed the Democrats. Yet the Democratic convention chose "to eat crow" and nominated Greeley. For a time Greeley scared the Grant men. He drew huge audiences when he spoke. The campaign became viciously personal. Thomas Nast, having just helped to upset the Tweed Ring in New York City by his cartoons, turned his devastating pen upon Greeley. Gratz Brown, a Missourian, who was Greeley's running-mate, was not known (by sight) in Manhattan, so Cartoonist Nast pictured him as a tag on Greeley's white coat. But Greeley fared even worse...
...Chinese proverb in heavy type: "One picture is worth 10,000 words" (at the present speed of transmission each picture is about the equivalent of 600 words-at 7c. a word, press rate, $42). Pictures of Oxford winning a relay race at Cambridge, of a steamship wreck on the Tweed River, of Queen Mother Alexandra, of Premier Stanley Baldwin, of Owen D. Young, of Ambassador Kellogg, of the Prince of Wales, were also transmitted. The man principally responsible for the new radiograph is Captain Richard H. Ranger, who devised the means of sending uniform impulses so that static does...