Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wide, calm face. This executive hearing was a climax to his 14 months work as counsel for the legislative committee investigating graft and corruption in Tammany's city. When told that the Mayor got a boisterous public welcome on his arrival, Counsel Seabury remarked: "So did Tweed." Not ten minutes after the hearing began Governor Roosevelt, who perhaps had even more at stake politically than the Mayor, demonstrated his complete command of the situation. Mayor Walker had brought along as his counsel blue-eyed, white-haired John J. Curtin, Brooklyn attorney, close friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Edward of Wales espied a man in a boater as battered as his own, waved his bedraggled straw. London tailors called the boater escapade last week the worst sartorial atrocity committed by H. R. H. since last month, when he turned up in a sleek cutaway coat and rough tweed trousers to pin medals on some London policemen...
...corner was an English gentleman in a Burberry, whose reverent hands stroked a pipe bowl that shone like well dressed leather. Here were three others helping a fourth decide between a crook necked and a straight stemmed. And there alone was one in a suit of tweed who gazed in silence at a loaded case lost in rapture and musing upon the greatness of a god that could think of such a wood as Briar...
...Stop them goddam pictures," roared Boss Tweed. "My constituents can't read but dammit they...
Thomas Nast invented most of the vocabulary of the U. S. political cartoon. He invented the figure of gaunt Uncle Sam, the Tammany Tiger (a reference to the tiger painted on the dashboard of Boss Tweed's old fire engine, now in the Museum of the City of New York), the Democratic Donkey and Republican Elephant. No other U. S. cartoonist has ever equaled his power, the strength of his line. Out of fashion for ten years before he died, he accepted the post of U. S. consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador from President Roosevelt, died at his post of yellow...