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Vaudeville and auctioneering reclaimed him until 1920 when he campaigned for the mayoralty with his wife ("Me and Sarah"), successfully, against enemies that called him "a vulgar vaudeville actor." His method this time was to invite the public to free vaudeville programs, then orate. Leaving office, he sought nomination for governor, losing to Klan-backed Ed. Jackson. His latest public appearance was last week as a witness in the trial for corruption of his mayoral successor, John L. Duvall (see CORRUPTION...
Dismissal of a huge extravaganza such as that which has held Chicago and, by radio and press, the entire nation spellbound, breathless and even unconscious, on the varying grounds that it was vulgar brutality, misdirected energy, or vapid inanity is begging the question in a conventional and entirely superficial fashion. The annual battle of the century may have been all of those things and many more, but since its power was so tremendous it can scarcely be passed off as just one of those things. The columns devoted to the private life, if they may be said to possess...
...Mayor Thompson had been a promise to oust "that stool pigeon of King George," Superintendent McAndrew. The color of the epithet was derived entirely from the Thompson campaign scheme. He and his friends were out to startle the electorate with an unrivaled display of Americanism, much as a vulgar hostess will try to startle society with her flamboyant Persian or Turkish or Hawaiian ball. It would be easy to burlesque Superintendent McAndrew as a British "spy," an under cover agent for Buckingham Palace-even though he was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan...
...were more complex. She had encountered publicity before, and publicity is so puzzling. You never give it a thought until it confronts you. Then, if you avoid it, you feel as though you were running away from something. But if you fall in with all its demands, you feel vulgar. The only decent way out seems to be to try to make the public view of your private affairs an accurate one. You examine your real feelings and come right out with them. Mrs. Stillman, while supervising the transformation of the colonial mansion into a "sylvan bower" for a pageant...
...fire and whirlwind, is one that might, almost any day nowadays, provide a sensation for the outspoken U. S. press. Particularly if there were violent or sexual details would the public be served to surfeit, until a very real crisis in one man's life became a vulgar byword, grossly misinterpreted...