Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discover Mr. Black's qualifications, was to question some of his advisors. Why, Charley Michelson (Democratic publicity agent) could have told him that Black was the Klan-supported nominee when he ran for the Senate in Alabama. Michelson himself when he was on the the old New York "World" wrote articles mourning the substitution of a man like Black for former Senator Oscar Underwood...
...which claims that the license plates identify the behavior of the driver. Similarly, it should be help in mind that where your feet trod is a reflection of your conduct. In college or in life one cannot afford to be thoughtless in any sense of the word. In New York's Washington Square--where the Fifth Avenue busses route and non-descripts fill the benches, there is a sign on the grass with an imaginative, although true message. It runs something like this...
...American Legion is in New York. Five hundred thousand jostling uniforms take possession of midtown Gotham. Traffic comes to a standstill. False alarms are turned in from a score of fire boxes. Signs are torn from trolley cars. Police confiscate revolvers, even a one-pound cannon. Two legionnaires die unknown and violent deaths. Soon there will be interminable military music, and for 18 1-2 hours the conquerors of New York are marching up Fifth Avenue...
They're here. Newspaper readers outside the city read about the impressive display with thrills of patriotic pride. New York merchants and hostel keepers warm to an inflow of money. Seven million New York civilians, now living in a state of joyous excitement, will be glad when the invaders go, for military shows are still so rare in this country as to be terrifying...
...spiritual therapy" which wiped out the effect of 38 years of neurotic floundering, beginning as a poor little rich girl in Buffalo and Europe, continuing steadily as she became a collector of writers, artists, labor leaders and such, who flocked to her famed salons in Florence and New York, involving her in tormented marriages, love affairs, desperate experiments in psychoanalysis, a dozen kinds of mystical philosophies...