I followed the incumbent throughout the election.

Manager Dahlen said that Callahan and Stengel were so evenly matched that he was up a stump trying to pick between them.

State politicians were still generally despised as second-raters, has-beens and never-would-bes more interested in lining their own pockets than in delivering services to those whom they were supposed to represent.

Designed by the Parlement, the grisly mise-en-scène, which horrified many philosophes, was intended to wipe the Parlement's slate clean of any putative stain of anti-monarchism.