Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic candidate. Martin H. Kennelly (rhymes with uh-nelly) was something new in Chicago politics. A businessman and civic leader, he had fought the Kelly-Nash machine in 1936 and 1939. This year he had consented to run only on condition that he would have no interference from Jake Arvey's Democratic machine...
...nostrils dilate voluptuously with the smell of dill. "Ah, Bock," he smiled ecstatically, unaffected by his friend's matter-of-fact terseness. "Harbinger of Spring. Once a year the brewers clean out the dregs from their barrels and market this heady, brown nectar. Why, it's better than Jake Wirth's dark, and you can save the subway trip." He held his glass up and examined its rich molasses-like color in the light. The strains of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps revamped by Freddie Martin began to permeate the vernal atmosphere...
...raucous tune Open the Door, Richard! (TIME, Feb. 10) was running through the country's veins like a low-grade fever. In San Antonio, a man named Richard was kept up all night by people ringing the doorbell and chanting the refrain. And in Manhattan old Jake Ruppert's brewery made it the slogan of an advertising campaign...
...headed the WPA Art Project, and written an able biography of U.S. soldier-of-fortune Frederick T. ("Chinese") Ward. This long, rich novel is as full of indigestible mixtures and exotic surprises as the $1.35 "Chinese" dinner at any U.S. city's Shanghai Palace (one flight up over Jake's Paints & Hardware...
Through Kennelly, shrewd little Jake Arvey hoped to regain the losses which the Democrats had suffered in November, start his new machine off right, still fueled by the mayoralty...