Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican Presidential possibilities discreetly, anxiously, even feverishly await the day when President Coolidge decides whether or not he is going to be a candidate for a third term. Administrationists in Washington, D. C., say certainly; farm blocers in the Middle West say not a chance; the President does...
...South. There is not the slightest doubt of that. . . . The growth here is greater than anywhere else; the changes are more vital and rapid; the tides of industry, agriculture and population are set in this direction; the real development is down in Dixie, not out in the West. It is plain as can be that in some more or less distant day the weight of wealth that has so long enabled East and North to dominate the rest of the country will be shifted to this section...
Prowling far into the northern Punjab, prowling further into the remote North-West Frontier Province of India, irrepressible impresarios of moviedom purchased last week at Rawalpindi, a building which they deemed suitable for a cinema theatre...
...Stiffened with chivalrous disapprobation as Laborite J. J. ("Jumping Jack") Jones twice called Viscountess Astor a liar while she flayed corruption alleged to exist in his constituency, West...
...182Noted that Lady Astor remained straight lipped, even when Jones achieved the excruciating West Ham witticism of shouting at Home Secretary ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks: "You're getting coal every day from filthy German Huns to break the coal strike! All right! Get your coal from Hell...