Word: democratism
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...second half of the book constitutes the New York Democrat's speech placing Al in nomination at the Houston convention. This is somewhat more flossy, necessarily so, conventions being what they are. Probably the speech is not great, but it boasts a certain happy phrasing and a very evident ring of sincerity...
More than 500 authors and publicists. Last fortnight the Democrats announced an Authors' Committee of 149 names, including Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, John Erskine, Finley Peter Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author...
...less light-hearted Democrat might have been overcome by the thought that he was sitting at the official heart of the State which gave William Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner, to the Democracy. Nominee Smith of the Sidewalks was not overcome...
...Hoover Democrat is a Republican who is ashamed to admit...
Sidney Johnston Catts, Democrat, used to be Governor of Florida (1916-20). Many a speech had he made in and near Florida's capital, Tallahassee. Last week he mounted a Tallahassee bandstand and began an anti-Smith speech. He touched upon Roman Catholicism. Whizzz-smack went an egg. Mr. Catts continued. Whizzz-smack went many eggs. Mr. Catts stopped talking. Irate, he left the bandstand, offered to fight any man in the crowd in single combat, offered a reward for the apprehension of his eggers...