Word: watsonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...democracy. For Broadway's satisfaction, a New York pugilist, Larry O'Moore (Frank Otto) has been trumped up. When he claps a very formal archduke on the back in the hearty manner of Times Square, the audience hee-haws. When the cowboy (ably done by Minor Watson) begs his courtiers not to go into reverse as they back out in his presence, the audience grunts its delight. When . . but the rest is the same...
...charge that Senator Lawrence D. Tyson of Tennessee, Democrat, used $1,800,000 in his primary campaign in 1924. Such a sum would be equivalent to $20 for every man and woman who voted for him. Other slush and corruption investigations which have dwindled, were those against Senators Watson and Robinson of Indiana, Senator Hawes of Missouri...
...Bruce are rarely hushed. Last spring, Senator Neely of West Virginia told him to his face that he talked too much. "I believe that I do not exaggerate," said Mr. Neely, "when I say that we have heard the Senator from Maryland speak 75 times on this bill [the Watson-Parker railroad bill]. We have learned to know in advance just what he is going to say.... We have voted down everything the Senator from Maryland has proposed and defeated everything he has supported, by a majority of 3 to 1.... But some debaters are insuppressible. It is as useless...
...conductors and trainmen of the 50 Eastern railroads. And by so much, of course, they added to the yearly operating expenses of those lines and deprived investors of their mete of profits. Their decision (it went into effect Dec. 1) was the first made under the Watson-Parker Railroad Act, and, although obedience by employers and workers is optional, they have set a precedent for labor arguments. This Act, passed last year, provides a code duello for railroaders, every nicety of which the factors of this case followed meticulously. Thus a year ago, the conductors and trainmen notified their employers...
...audiences there are best satisfied when all of their favorites shine. And it has been several weeks since anyone except Clive himself bore any of the burden. Nan Marriot Watson has disappointed in a variety of roles. Even the ladies' delight, Allen Mowbray, has failed them, for his part in the present play is not only small but his performance is unimpressive. It might be ventured that it is a grave mishap to include the dashing Mr. Mowbray in a cast when he doesn't hold front and center. His lines will be fortunate if they receive anything like their...