Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis then set out on another speaking tour in West Virginia. He spoke at Charleston, Huntington, White Sulphur Springs, Hinton, Thurmond, Ronceverte, Anderson, Meadowcreek, Quinnimont, Fayettesville, Bluefield†, Fort Gay, Crumm, Williamstown, Welch, North Fork. Some remarks...
...Leaving West Virginia, Mr. Davis spent a day in Washington, bringing the three Presidential candidates all into the same metropolis at the same time. Then he concluded his little excursion by a speech at Wilmington, in which he spoke of the Republican campaign...
...Burton K. Wheeler, touring the West, spoke at Rock Island, Ill., Davenport, Iowa, St. Paul, Des Moines, Lincoln, Omaha. One of his most telling effects was to push an empty chair to the front of the platform and call for "strong and cautious" Coolidge. Then he turned dramatically toward the empty seat...
...This Klonvocation, held here in the great Middle West, is assembled on the battlefield of the immediate future. Some of the Eastern states are today lost to true Americanism and must be rewon; but the great American population of the Middle West, of the South and of the Southwest are left to do valiant battle...
...them. Witness Wales, and now Whittier's heroine. As in the play by Clyde Fitch, Barbara of the silver screen appears as a youngster of twentysomething, author not only of America's first permanent wave but also of love in the bosom of her brother's West Point classmate, Cadet Trumbull. The Civil War interrupts their incipient idyll. Cadet Trumbull is a Northerner, the Frietchies being, it will be remembered, one of the finer families of slaveholding Frederick, Md. When the times comes for Barbara to say the historic "Shoot if you must this old grey head...