Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Senator-elect White, personally popular, had won by an average "off-year" majority. Governor Gardiner, on the other hand, had defeated Nominee Moran two years prior by 80,000 votes. The other factors in Maine disputed any broad significance in its vote: 1) no drought; 2) no Prohibition issue; 3) little or no economic depression...
...Gallon Glaser. One of the Major's articles related: "In December 1927, a man named Matthew Quay Glaser was announced at my office. He was a large, robust individual in a noisy suit of clothes. In his hand was an immense cane, and atop his head was a ten-gallon hat which remained there as he pumped my hand effusively. ... In a voice that would have sounded loud in front of a Coney Island tentshow he enlightened me at length about his magnificent accomplishments. . . . He informed me that he had been delegated by Senator Curtis as his [Curtis...
Aware of his probable selection on the morrow, Dean Cross went peacefully to bed after serving notice on party leaders that he would not accept their nomination unless he were given a free hand to reorganize the static Democratic State Committee by turning out its chairman James...
...death struggle sounds that did not come. When she raised the cloth on the silver platter to kiss the dead lips listeners sat in amazement at the incompatible hate and golden singing. When the curtain swung down on her violent death it was a long moment before a hand was lifted in applause. Then began an ovation lasting a quarter of an hour with repeated curtain calls for Jeritza and Conductor Gaetano Merola...
...present a sounder philosophy of life than the noted speaker makes them out to hold in his anecdote. Mr. Bacon's objections to this code are rightly chosen insofar as the man might have meant opposition to the society of which his son is a part. On the other hand, the promise might have implied that in a college education may be found the key to one's independence. A degree is an excellent, if not absolutely necessary, stepping-stone to material security. By that success only, can an individual in modern America, faced with the problems of supporting himself...