Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar phenomenon in the U. S. is the Anti-Saloon League, now 35 years old. Becoming familiar is another phenomenon, now nine years old, called the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...with the Hughes resignation. The Hughes resignation had long been sought by citizens, including the loud Tribune, who had grown weary of Chicago's bawdy disorderliness under Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill the Builder") Thompson. The Hughes resignation seemed to indicate that an end to the whole Thompson phenomenon was in sight. Thompson and his men were beaten and discredited in the primary election this spring. Thompson has been convicted of grafting and .ordered to pay back $2,500,000 to the city. Thompson's city-comptroller has had to resign, owing to huge deficits in the city...
...been treated unfairly.*They had heard a rumor that Lacoste was going to write articles for American newspapers.† The Parisian mind could not bring itself to understand what writing had to do with tennis eligibility. Not since Lindbergh had Paris become so worked up over an American phenomenon...
TAMMANY HALL-M. R. Werner-Doubleday-Doran ($5). A biographer of eccentricians (Barnum, Brigham Young), Freedom, suffrage, peace. Mr. Werner reproduces all the war-paint and peacetime paint, all the cardinal sins and probable virtues of a famed phenomenon, in a manner calculated to sell books...
...week of jingles, Poet MacLeish remembers the poet's lay, to keep it lyric. The wind in the grass is still, as in his earliest writings, a spiritual phenomenon. But he has since found power in harsh words-"an oak screams in the wind . . . the wet wood smoke blinds...