Word: badgering
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Sylvia Sidney is first seen preparing to leave jail, ready to forget her dishonest husband who implicated her in the old badger game. She is free, with five dollars in her pocketbook. Three dollars and sixty-five cents for train fare and a few days in the big city. Broke, A rainy night. Into a taxicab for shelter. The driver takes her to his room. But he does not trust pick-ups. Takes his money out of the bureau ready to go to a friend's room for the night. Takes another look at her. Thinks she is pretty nice...
...answer is that this is a very special problem. It needs the establishment of machinery suitable for the purpose in hand. The CRIMSON needs to be reminded that here is a separate problem. It needs to badger the authorities into treating the problem as an annul affair, demanding annual reconsideration and solution. The men chosen by the CRIMSON this spring to serve as Assistant Managing Editors will run the papers throughout the autumn. From their ranks will be chosen the CRIMSON'S two Presidents from their class. Such a series as this should be long in preparation. The functional organization...
...Lenz-Assmannsheim cost $1,500. In 1918 most people in the U. S. would not have taken a dachshund as a gift. Grotesquely squat and sausage-like, the dog made an apt symbol for propagandizing cartoonists. Furtively clinging to its pets, the Dachshund Club changed its name to "The Badger Dog Club...
Calm as a badger, up rose Idaho's wrinkled Borah, seldom the man to stop a good fight. He wanted to make way for an amendment to the Glass bill which would make it less obnoxious to the Long faction. He asked for unanimous consent to limit further debate on the bill in a proposal tantamount to cloture. "If we cannot secure agreement," he added grimly, "I myself am going to make a speech." He secured agreement...
...recognized "Mark Rampion" as a sympathetic portrait of Lawrence may have wondered how Lawrence liked it. He wrote to Huxley: "Your Rampion is the most boring character in the book?a gasbag. Your attempt at intellectual sympathy!?It's all rather disgusting, and I feel like a badger that has its hole on Wimbledon Common and trying not to be caught...