Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Landon may have his picture taken while riding a horse around his back yard; Borah may be snapped cantering through Idaho on a spirited nag; and even Knox may affect jhodpurs to and from the office of the Chicago Daily News. Yet this sudden burst of horse-consciousness on the part of the Republican publicity men does not mean the G.O.P. is trying to portray its prophets as members of a wealthy and notedly extravagant class. The technique may be wrong but the idea is right:--"Frugal Alf" Landon, "he balanced Kansas' budget", thirty, honest, simple...
Crimson voters mirrored the country's feeling in the February poll when they voted 55 per cent to declare void 5-4 decisions of the Supreme Court which adversely affect acts of Congress...
...about the effect of the Talmadge "secession" the Georgia on New Deal power in the South, the major-demo of the Roosevelt forces declared: "It won't change our scheme at all; if Talmadge wants to enter the race, that's all right with me, but it won't affect our policy...
...hair to a glandular baldhead if the follicles are nourished before they die. Repeated scares or fits of anger may cause baldness by causing the capillaries of the scalp to constrict. Such hypersensitive constriction prevents blood from getting to the hair follicles and nourishing them. Rages and scares also affect the growth of hair by exhausting the adrenals. High fevers have a like effect...
...down-at-heel mummers might arise the beginnings of a State Theatre. The chef d'oeuvre of Director Rice's regime was a dramatized newsreel called Ethiopia. When WPA headquarters in Washington learned about Ethiopia the production was hastily canceled as a "dramatization which may affect our international relations." Mr. Rice's disenchantment was complete. Crying that "freedom of expression" had been "stifled," he turned in his resignation...