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...pledge. But many a silk-stocking Republican, to whom LaGuardia's radicalism is repugnant and who remembers how the gallant major bedeviled Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, would quietly cast his vote for handsome, upright young Joe McKee. Adding Republican momentum to its original Democratic impetus, McKee's cueball had already clicked off O'Brien's white-ball, was rolling toward LaGuardia's redball. It looked as though a Hooverite kiss would make a Rooseveltian billiard. Wall street was betting 2-to-1 it would...
Seven years later he had her dug up again, published the poems. The Pre-Raphaelites had lost their ascetically youthful idealism. By the time Algernon Charles Swinburne joined Rossetti the upright Ruskin had washed his hands of him; Pre-Raphaelite Rossetti had graduated into "the fleshly school." Drugs, his guilty conscience, his Cockney mistress Fanny Cornforth, helped him downhill fast. By 1885 the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was long dead, buried, waiting for its resurrection...
Other stockholders, less well-to-do than the Couzenses, were fighting the $35,000,000 in assessments ordered by the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency, had in fact secured a temporary Federal injunction against their collection. Such legal tactics made upright Senator Couzens impatient. Declaimed...
...down a 100,000-ton liner such as does not now exist. Through its gate, liners will float into a huge masonry bed. A sliding caisson will drop behind them. Four 54-in. centrifugal pumps will take out water until the ship sits on the concrete bottom, propped upright so that its hull may be scraped.* Flanking the dry dock are a mile and a half of new quays. Nearby a monument marks the spot whence the Mayflower...
After living in sin with the Trigger, the upright young lawyer who had proposed to her, finds them. She shoots the Trigger who had killed the drunken boy and comes to trial before her father, a rugged judge. It all turns out nicely and the audience goes home happy. One hears that George Raft refused to take the nasty part, fearing to get a snaky reputation and be hissed by the kiddies like William Powell or Wallace Berry...