Word: plugging
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...Actually, any one who gives the matter unbiased consideration will realize that it is for the benefit of the rich to plug loopholes in tax laws, since this raises more revenues without raising rates...
...Babes In Arms. Not only because of her physical appearance but because of her propensity for rolling her eyes and giving the customers a continuous big square-mouthed smile, Miss Green is constantly, if unintentionally, in the throes of an imitation of Fanny Brice. Nevertheless, she is the spark plug of Babes In Arms. She dances a little, sings a lot: most charmingly a song called My Funny Valentine, most stridently a song called The Lady Is A Tramp...
...hint to mind his manners, but he went right ahead. Climax of his crusade was a parade of the underdogs, led by Dave and Allen, to the new meeting house built by painful comradely effort. When the cheering marchers got there, the chief of police and a committee of plug-uglies were waiting for them. In the riot Dave was shot, Allen clubbed. Then the meeting house was burned down. When Allen got out of jail he found his paper had been wrecked. Most of his intimidated followers left him. Dave died of his wound. Allen somehow got his paper...
...soft-spoken businessmen about the possibility of putting through a branch of his Texas & Pacific Railroad to connect the city overland northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets!" Jay Gould put through his branch line after all, but with it, his unpleasant prophecy started to come true...
...surrender the ballot boxes to thugs, gangsters and plug-uglies who patrol the streets with machine guns. We can't stand for that any longer. Reach for all-even if you find them in high authority. Move on them. My information is that the population of Kansas City is less than 400,000. The last registration was something like 270,000. ... A registration like that would call for a population something like...