Word: afoot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...setting is convincing and not obtrusive--always a danger in writing of "far lands and strange peoples." The plot tends toward the melodramatic, with a correct and fatuous happy ending--very satisfactory from the perfectionist point of view. One perceives in the first forty pages that dirty work is afoot; the dirty work is done; it is straightened out, and if, with the aid of a map inside the cover, one untangles the maze of proper names, one can comprehend and appreciate the situations in the sugar intrigue...
What is a "whispering campaign"? Is it a pack of slanders deliberately and covertly set afoot by one's political opponents in an organized way? Is it a mixture of fact, exaggeration and gossip on unprintable subjects which one's political opponents know is being passed around and over which they secretly gloat? Is it a parcel of prejudice circulated by the ignorant and the fanatical, which one's opponents would be powerless to arrest however fairminded they might...
When Postmaster Peterson of Douglas, Ga., committed suicide this spring (TIME, April 16), people said it was because he had gone broke paying the politicians for his job. It aroused a Senate investigation of how Federal patronage is dispensed in the South, an investigation which got afoot last week under the leadership of Iowa's Brookhart. Georgia's George was on the committee, too, and Ohio's newly-seated Locher...
...Strictly speaking, the Capone residence is just outside Chicago, in ill-famed Cicero, Ill. But the Capone operations are inside the city limits. Chicago's police and Mr. Capone understand each other when a civic "cleanup" is afoot...
...Neil (fugitive from justice), all of whom participated in the Continental Trading Co.'s big deal-would be made to pay penalties for evasion of taxes on Continental profits. It was "not compatible with public interest" to say how much the belated penalties would be. Treasury investigations were afoot...