Word: badger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huntington Badger Henry (she was a Swift) gave a joint, lavish party at the Blackstone for their daughters Geraldine Swift and Hortense Henry. San Francisco. Mrs. Adolph...
Ever since the fall of his Government 16 months ago, the post of Leader has been torture to Mr. Baldwin. Every morning, every evening the newspapers of Baron Beaverbrook, ruthless "Hearst of England," badger him to resign, give insulting reasons?the real reason being that Lord Beaverbrook wants to become Mr. Baldwin's successor. Last week was one of the worst poor Stanley has ever gone through, supported by indomitable, pious Lucy, one of the last great Victorians...
...opening of the fall drinking season, to Maundy Thursday . . . . yes and ended in the spring disinheritance . . . . weekend Indeed, why the Hoosick Whisick party itself wasn't over for eight days . . . . not until somebody found the last mural moosehead floating under Harvard Bridge and the plumbers had removed a stuffed badger from the innards of my open plumbing fixture . . . . a pretty notion of a weekend, just getting the, old grad back and doing a job on him . . . . what about my reputation? . . . . last year you know damn well you pushed me through the cold buffet in the Copley dining room...
...London last week, already quarreling among themselves. The more exalted contingent of maharajas and rajas held a secret session in St. James's Palace presided over by H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, famed some years ago as "Mr. A" when a smart Englishwoman worked the badger game on him in Paris (TIME...
James Maxwell Murphy is correct. To the State of Wisconsin, apologies. But the adjacent connotation "badger v. t." which Webster does say derives from Wisconsin is as follows: "To beat down; cheat; barter; bargain...