There’s
a boom upon the sailboat, if it strikes you on the head,
It
will either knock you senseless, or will simply kill you dead.
And
the booming of the cannon either stuns, or takes your breath;
But
the presidential boomlet, why it means a living death.
April
24 (‘96)
B.
Traveler
July
25, ‘96
boomlet - from The American Heritage® Dictionary of
the English Language, 4th Edition:
n. A
small boom, as in business, politics, or the birth rate
The United States presidential election of 1896 was
the 28th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3,
1896. It climaxed an intensely heated contest in which Republican candidate William
McKinley (a former Governor of Ohio) defeated Democrat William
Jennings Bryan (a former Representative from Nebraska) in one of the
most dramatic and complex races in American history.
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