Word: potent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Oldtime Senators recalled the great furor of 1913 when, at the ringing protest of Woodrow Wilson, the Sugar Lobby was investigated with Lobbyist Martin Michael Mulhall of the National Manufacturer's Association as star witness. Potent and insidious methods of electing the '"proper" men were then revealed. Of that inquisition, Montana's grim Walsh was a member...
Sergeant Samuel Woodfill received a decoration from the Polish Government to the joy of his fellow Hoosiers, who agree with General Pershing that he was "the greatest hero of the A. E. F.," outshining even Tennessee's potent Sergeant Alvin York...
Married. Elinor Patterson Codman, onetime beauteous nun of The Miracle, onetime reporter, and frequent flying companion of her father Joseph Medill Patterson, potent publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Liberty (nickel weekly), the New York Daily News (tabloid); and Griffith Mark, son of Chicago steelman Clayton Mark; at Greenwich, Conn. Her first husband (divorced 1929) was Russel Sturgis Codman Jr,. of Boston...
...play . . . glorifies . . . an abject code of morals." With this comment did Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols of Boston recently forbid the Theatre Guild to present Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude in his city. Once again Bostonians applauded or flayed their potent, often-evidenced municipal censorship...
...forbid," said one of Carry's victims watching her work, "that I should ever strike a woman." She once told how two men tried to asphyxiate her by blowing cigaret-smoke through a hotel keyhole. When one place she raided proved to sell nothing more potent than chili con carne, she asked God to forgive the owner for tempting U. S. appetites with foreign dishes. She objected to the tobacco trade-name "Bull Durham" because bulls were manifestly no tobacco users. When she was jailed, a follower wrote to the judge: "We now propose if Mrs. Nation is held...