Word: blushful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their offices produced results last week. A resolution by North Carolina's Warren to open the April payroll to public inspection was adopted. This was brought about largely by a series of crusading dispatches by inquisitive United Pressman Raymond Clapper, whose digs and jabs made relative-hiring Congressmen blush. The average House member who pays his wife, son or daughter to clerk for him wrathfully refuses to discuss publicly the details of the arrangement. Newsmen had to puzzle out the House's payroll for April by themselves. They found: ¶ One hundred members with clerks of the same...
...world-the assassinations of President Doumer of France and Premier Inukai of Japan and the finding of the murdered Lindbergh baby. But last week the Vatican's daily Osservatore Romano, commenting on Inukai's death, observed that recent criminal acts were enough "to make the world blush ... [a] most execrable offense to civilization...
...called demagogic claptrap, it is hard to understand. He does not need to go out and beat the bushes for votes. If he must speak, he ought to make sure of his facts first and then deal with them in a way not to cause his supporters to blush. . . . His speech was of a sort to make his friends sorry and the judicious grieve." ¶ To friends in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and California who wondered precisely where he stood in the party's pre-convention contest, Mr. Smith wrote: "I will accept the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. I certainly...
When a West Pointer speaks of "growley" he is referring either to tomato catchup or to a blush...
...quiet and mossy seclusion of the Poetry Room has been too little disturbed since its doors were thrown open to the University last fall. Sequestered in the upper reaches of Widener and left to blush unseen in the sterile atmosphere of the special libraries, the Poetry Room has failed to fulfill its high promise. Unfortunately to the difficulties of its location have been added other obstacles which discourage the ordinary mortal in pursuit of his muse...