whistle-stop
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Elections follow technology from newspapers to Teddy Roosevelt’s whistle-stop train tours, radio addresses, newsreels and sweaty Richard Nixon vs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
A successful Oscar campaign makes a series of whistle-stop speeches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
Today's Bank Holiday weekend will start with Rishi Sunak visiting the north-east after the prime minister completed a whistle-stop tour of the four home nations over the last two days.
From BBC ● May 25, 2024
A whistle-stop tour of Lincoln’s body is framed as a flashy PR strategy.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
They was big enough for a station, but not much bigger than what we called a whistle-stop.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
On the other, it celebrates the American vernacular in the form of Central California whistle-stops, working-class bungalows and Joan Blondell’s impersonating a tipsy hash-slinger out for a night on the town.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2017
After all, coastal hamlets, mountaintop villages, and desert whistle-stops have inspired American artists for generations, among them, the Impressionists of Connecticut’s Old Lyme Colony and the minimalist installation artists who more recently gentrified Marfa.
From Time ● Jan. 26, 2015
Before long, Ms. Raimondo has been cautioning in whistle-stops here and across the state, that figure will climb perilously toward 20 cents.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2011
He was a man the people at whistle-stops could understand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even at night, that train made whistle-stops in places where there was nothing but farms or a small mill.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
Riding a red train, he whistle-stopped the country defending workers and exhorting voters to support him.
From US News ● Jun. 8, 2016
On the day that Harry Truman whistle-stopped at Clarksburg, the Exponent carried not a word about it.
From Time Magazine Archive
He whistle-stopped through Bavaria and Hesse, speaking from the back platform of his train.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Harry Truman in 1948, he whistle-stopped through Ohio and motored across eastern Pennsylvania, giving as much hell as he had earlier absorbed.
From Time Magazine Archive
And as he whistle-stopped through Michigan and Ohio, hedgehopped into Kentucky and then flew in to Cincinnati, he worked these themes hard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paris-trained Nancy Kefauver, 52, has always preferred painting to politics, and her whistle-stopping smiles were only surface-deep during the quarter century in which Estes Kefauver held first a House, then a Senate seat from Tennessee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides last week's whistle-stopping, both girls have appeared regularly at weekend political rallies and cookouts all over the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
Battling an ulcer, he went all the way with H.S.T. for 22,000 whistle-stopping miles and saw him snatch victory from odds-on Favorite Tom Dewey.
From Time Magazine Archive
"What's the word for this trip?" asked newsmen of Harry Truman as he for three days of whistle-stopping in New England and New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Knowlands packed their bags, set off from their Oakland home for a two-month, 140-speech whistle-stopping "Report to the People of California."
From Time Magazine Archive
