Word: bleats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mayor of Peiping was ready to do Japan's bidding, prepared for a Gilbert-&-Sullivan ceremony in the Confucian Hall of Perfection, rounded up 80 orphans to bleat traditional Confucian music, to watch him kowtow nine times to China's sage...
...issue of prime importance. For months unbiased voters have scratched their puzzled heads while Republicans snarled that the Democrats were brazenly turning last year's $4,880,000,000 relief appropriation into a campaign fund and Democrats replied that the Republican charge was merely the familiar old bleat of the Outs against the fictitious misdeeds of the Ins. Until last week neither party had cared or was able to back up its position with facts & figures. Even though highly partisan and hence open to the gravest question, the facts & figures which both political camps suddenly made public represented...
...from Topeka rose a terrific bleat from Governor Landon's handlers. Strongly they implied that Nominee Roosevelt had anted out of turn, anticipating the Republican Nominee's first square-off at the farm issue scheduled to be delivered at Des Moines 48 hours later. Hastily rushed to the press was Governor Landon's own crop insurance plan, to wit: "I believe that the question of crop insurance should be given the fullest attention." Two nights later at the Des Moines fair grounds, the Republican nominee laid down chip-by-chip his full bid for the agricultural vote...
Peppered with questions which he could not answer about the cost of administering the Plan and the basis for estimating the probable yield from a universal transactions tax, Dr. Townsend finally turned on his questioners, expressed his opinion of all such petty quibblings in a sharp bleat: "Oh, why all this nonsense?" Townsendgrams & Fraud. Third morning's questioning involved another Townsend appeal for funds. In January 1935 four men went to Washington to lobby the Townsend Plan through Congress. To pay their expenses Townsendites were asked to contribute to a special Congressional Action Fund, supplied $23,400. Four months...
freesia-sweet, Piteous, to eye and ear, as a lamb's bleat...