Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vice President-elect had not, of course, hurried to Washington to ask the Vice President for his gavel or for parliamentary pointers on how to preside over the Senate. For the gavel Senator Curtis can have no use until the business of the Short Session is completed and he has resigned as Senator and has been inaugurated. For parliamentary pointers the Senate's new president, who has ruled over its Republican half since the death of Henry Cabot Lodge (1924), has about as much need as a grandmother has need for instruction in baby-washing...
Senator George Higgins ("Red Hot Stuff") Moses of New Hampshire, brisk, sanguine, ironic, emphatic, is the Senate's President Pro Tern., i.e., first deputy when the Vice President leaves his rostrum for a snooze, stroll or conference. Senator Moses was Hooverizer of the East, another reason why he "rates" the position. Seemingly, only one thing could keep Senator Moses from being elected second-most-important man in the Senate chamber. That thing would be the same thing- whatever it was-for which Senator Moses was restrained from being his really dominant self in the Hoover campaign. The only imaginable...
...Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Justice-Louis Barthou...
Hotbed. It is the conviction of those who write plays for Broadway that Puritanism is not a state of mind but a vice; thus they attack it with knives and reformatory fury, instead of explaining it. Hotbed, like Revolt a week ago. deals with a blue-nosed divine, the Rev. David Rushbrook. The scene of his hypocritical virtuosities is a college this time, for Author Paul Osborn himself has been a pedagogue. An assistant professor seduced the Rev. Rushbrook's daughter, after drinking whiskey...
Engagement Denied. Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Louisville, Ky., vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Dr. Hubert Work of Pueblo, Col., chairman of the Republican National Committee; by Mrs. Hert...