Word: whirlwinding
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...Harry Hines, a churchgoing member of the Texas Highway Department. Pappy O'Daniel got out his sound truck (with a replica of the Capitol dome on top), hired some more entertainers (including Texas Rose, a girl ballad singer), and put on a two-week whirlwind campaign. In his wake he left a trail of fainting girls and women-sometimes as many as a dozen would be laid out on the truck, prostrated by the crush of O'Daniel handshakers. On Saturday night, after the polls closed, he threw a mammoth party in the Governor's Mansion...
...Continued a whirlwind speaking & praying tour...
...unpaid volunteer workers quietly secured the signatures during the past three weeks. As explained by a member yesterday, the Plan E Committee's strategy is to "lie low" during the spring, conducting an educational campaign and reserving its forces for a whirlwind fight next fall...
...From colored ladies' teas to clambakes to women's club meetings to political rallies" was the way Theodore L. (Ted) Sendak '40 of Gary, Indiana and Eliot House described a typical day of his recently completed whirlwind campaign for the Republican nomination to the Indiana State Legislature...
Then Betsy Blackwell brought a homely Boston nurse, one Barbara Phillips, to Manhattan for a whirlwind shopping tour, and made her over completely: new clothes, new hair, a glamorous makeup. Nurse Phillips gave Mademoiselle so much publicity that Betsy turned the stunt into a contest for ugly girls. From thousands of photographs of sad-eyed ducklings Betsy would choose one, send her home a cinema swan. Mademoiselle's circulation reached a peak of 178,057 in May 1939, began falling again...