Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three States were saved from the storm: Maine, Vermont and Major. At a meeting of the people of this great State early this morning, it was unanimously decided that Major County should secede from the Union and go independent. Versing their thoughts on the surrounding counties who had let them down so ignominiously, it was decided there was absolutely no respect to be commanded from them nor the slightest degree of dignity lent and so therefore the only sensible thing to do was secede from the Union." To establish the bona fides of the new nation, a list...
While in Minnesota Swedes hold a gala country dance, big blond square-headed people singing and shouting and stamping and reeling. While in Vermont Ephraim Putney puts down "The Contry Gentleman" and rubs his eyes as he clumps in his loose old Congress gaiters up to bed. While in Florida a huge corps of painters, cleaning-women and janitors go over the Miami-Biltmore, working late to get ready for the coming rush. While overseas the bright young Mr. Eden scratches his head over the second major diplomatic crisis he has had to handle in a year. While Mussolini frowns...
...grandfather who, the next evening, went down in triumph to board his special train at Hyde Park station. Some 300 neighbors were there to bid him farewell with cheers and placards. Shrieked one, "Roosevelt-46 States Honor Him! Dutchess County?'' Shrieked another, "As Maine Goes-So Goes Vermont...
Franklin Roosevelt, having a public taste of election triumph, pointed to that placard and cried: "That sign's all right, and it's all my fault. That's one time I didn't take Jim Farley's advice. He wanted me to go into Vermont and Maine. . . . Now I'm going back to Washington-to do what they call balance the Budget and fulfill the first promise of the campaign, and after a week or so with the Budget I'm going to get some sleep, and, because I can really sleep...
...Roosevelt election by inventing the Forty-Eight States Roosevelt Cocktail. Ingredients: 10 "states" of white Dutch curaçao; 10 "states" of English gin; 8 of grapefruit juice; 18 of French vermouth; one of angostura bitters, representing Maine; and a final "state" of absinthe, green as the forests of Vermont, dripped in on top of the finished cocktail. Urged Barman Beltramo, "Drink one and see the landslide...