Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daniel Webster Hoan live in a cheap little frame house in Milwaukee's unfashionable 17th Ward. They have lived there for 18 years. The Hoans's living room overflows with overstuffed furniture, a radio, a phonograph, a piano. On the piano stand photographs of Mrs. Hoan, her mother, the Hoans's son Daniel Webster Jr., their daughter Agnes at 2 and at 18. A picture of the Hoans, looking stiff and uncomfortable after their wedding in 1909, hangs in the stairway hall...
...people. He counts the city's bankers, utilities men and big real estate owners his sworn enemies. The Press, except for a small Socialist sheet, is solidly against him. Republicans and Democrats have virtually lost their separate identities in uniting to oppose him. Yet Daniel Webster Hoan remains one of the nation's ablest public servants, and under him Milwaukee has become perhaps the best-governed city...
...York, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco, Milwaukee's city government was distinguished for its laxity and corruption. In 1904-06 more than 200 Republican and Democratic officials were indicted for graft. In 1910 disgusted citizens put a whole Socialist slate into office, including 29-year-old Daniel Webster Hoan as city attorney...
Many a citizen who has never heard of Daniel Webster Hoan and his municipal achievements knows Milwaukee as a great brewing town, home of Pabst, Blatz, Miller and of Schlitz, "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous." The current Socialist campaign slogan: KEEP MILWAUKEE FAMOUS...
Indeed Subscriber Belger does not understand the meaning of the word "wench." Webster's New International Dictionary defines "wench": "A girl or maiden; young woman; damsel. A girl of the peasant class; also a female servant." Archaic is meaning No. 4: "A lewd woman; a strumpet...