Word: belaboring
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...Washington late this month goes Alfred E. Smith to address the American Liberty League in a speech that will presumably belabor the New Deal. To Mr. Smith last week went an invitation from Mrs. Roosevelt to spend the night at the White House when he is in town. Mr. Smith, a good tactician, politely excused himself. When the Press noted this byplay, a spokesman for the President announced: "This is not the first time that Mr. Smith had been invited to be an overnight guest at the White House. At least once a year, Mr. Smith has been invited...
...obvious point that it would not do to call a Fundamentalist a scoundrel, such libel talk only exaggerated the simple fact that the "Bible-believing" minority of the Presbyterian Church was restless, irritable, unhappy. Well it might be, for it knew that the 147th General Assembly was ready to belabor it and vote it down at every turn...
Some 30,000 Roman Catholics overflowed Philadelphia's Convention Hall last Sunday to hear Michael Cardinal Dougherty & others belabor the Government of Mexico for its mistreatment of their Church. Meanwhile other Catholics zealously stirred the still cold pot of a Congressional investigation of Mexican "religious persecutions" which Senator Borah had put on the fire in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...inspires the contemplative mood. Nor is there firm foundation for the assumption that most students spend their week-ends at Bar Harbor. The financial consideration, ever present, would be solved by those who, having no participation tickets, would have to stand the fee. But rather than attempt to belabor this sabbatical restraint of navigation on logical grounds, it is better to regard it as one of those conditions which are unsupported by rational though, and which will pass slowly away as spring thaws the bureaucracy...
...keeps more regular hours now, leaves Baltimore less often. He reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn once a year, enjoys talking philosophy and theology with Baltimore priests. For shrewd Bishop James Cannon Jr., whose Methodist Episcopal Church, South, along with the Baptists, Editor Mencken used to bait and belabor so vociferously, he now has a genuine admiration ("I'd hardly call him a merry fellow, but he is amiable, intelligent. . . . Very few living Americans are so interesting...