Word: whig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a blue twinkle in his eye, a carefree mustache and a knobbly walking stick. He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra. Few Princeton graduates could tell you which temple is the home of the American Whig and which of the Cliosophical Society, but any Princeton man could single out from 10,000 public speaking professors, the memorable face and figure of Professor Harry F. Covington...
...good deal of Nell Gwynn's posthumous reputation is due to her identification with the Protestant cause and the political drift which later crystallized into the Whig Party...
...Hooker's book is much more than a Bowles biography. It is a brilliant resume of the history of the U. S. From the Whig revolt to the election of Gov. Calvin Coolidge on a League of Nations platform, Mr. Hooker deftly recalls to one's imperfect memory the great political organizations of this nation. Rarely has so much history been so judiciously set forth in so few words...
...inquire where I now stand. That is a disputed point. I think I am a Whig; but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an Abolitionist...
...40th, the 50th, the 60th, the 70th ballot passed. All records were broken. In 1860, the Democratic Convention at Charleston had balloted 57 times before splitting over the slavery issue, after which the southern delegates withdrew and the northern wing nominated Douglas on the second ballot. In 1840, the Whig Convention at Harrisburg had taken "many, many" ballots ? nobody counted them?before nominating W. H. Harrison. But even if the number of ballots at these Conventions had been as great, the endurance record would have been less, for in the earlier days there were fewer states. At the Harrisburg...