Word: matchless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinary rules did not apply. Last week, as the mayoralty campaign heated up, the old man got up at 6 each morning, spent hours bestowing favors, made appearances at football games, banquets, parades and public meetings. Despite his age and ailments, he still managed the mellow eloquence and the matchless gall which had made him the darling of the Boston streets. Though his principal opponents were Irishmen like himself, he spoke as though he were a protector of the people crusading against the Boston Brahmins...
Because there is a certain amount of truth in the old vision yet, because the young graduate has a matchless opportunity at least to stretch his wings and supplement his formal learning with travel or and interesting job, it is a pity that so many misguided souls are passing all this up to get married...
...when silver was discovered in Leadville, the barren ravines leading to California Gulch swarmed with feverish thousands. In the gambling halls and Sallie Purple's fancy parlors, the bonanza kings strutted and roistered. "Haw" Tabor brought in the rich Little Pittsburgh, then the $10 million Matchless. Silver was everywhere a man might throw his pick, and the picks were thrown everywhere. The picks were sold by Charles Boettcher who, in the end, found a slower but surer bonanza...
...Christmas pantomimes have not been wholly pure-i.e., perfectly silent-for a long time. Singing & dancing have been customary since 1723, spoken dialogue since 1814. The great joy of every panto player is the matchless exuberance of his audience. Last year Nervo & Knox, two fine slapstickers with 26 years in panto, so worked up their youthful audience against the Baron (Variety Artist Eddy Gray) that he could not speak his lines for the din; when Nervo yelled, "Come on, kids, let's kill the Baron," more than a hundred of them stormed on to the stage and stopped...
Whatever was in Old John's mind, he played his game with his usual matchless skill. From the Government viewpoint, the contract which Interior Secretary "Cap" Krug had signed with Lewis last spring, after a 59-day strike, seemed foolproof. The Stars & Stripes flew over the 3,300 soft coal mines manned by U.M.W. miners. They could not strike against the Government. There was a law against it -the Smith-Connally...