Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record of Washington's Senator Homer Truett Bone is as follows...
...undersigned constituents of Senator Homer T. Bone will appreciate your giving his record in the Senate, together with an appraisal of his standing...
...Career: Homer Truett Bone is a round-shouldered, kindly little man with a gloomy viewpoint. In discussing the state of the world, he is apt to remark: "This is a dark and sombre picture." Politicians, whose squabbling Homer Bone heartily dislikes, do not understand why Bone, of all men, should be afflicted by melancholy. Indisputably his State's most popular politician, he amassed 243,682 votes in the Democratic primary this year to 196,876 for all his opponents. He spends no money in the primary, except for gas and oil, and has just returned a $500 check from...
...forceful, vitriolic speaker when he is aroused, Homer Bone is as unrelenting as ever toward the men he calls the big-dough boys." Besides Franklin Roosevelt, his enthusiasms are his son "Home," 16, locomotives, and oysters, which he sometimes eats for breakfast...
Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania: Webster N. Jones Jr., of Pittsburgh; and Homer S. Musgrave, of Mt. Lehanon, Pittsburgh...