Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young Jim." The War had interrupted his law schooling, but overseas service in the 103rd Field Artillery was not bad training for a rising Pendergast. For Pendergast "Goats," there was still plenty of fistfighting to be done with Shannon "Rabbits" when Young Jim started at the bottom as precinct worker and pollbook carrier in his father's Tenth Ward. An apt pupil, he was ready to take over the ward when his father died in 1929. That year Young Jim's training for the succession began in earnest. Beginning to tire of 500 conferences per day, Big Boss...
...steaming ordures of the stage." The Country Wife is generally conceded to be the best of William Wycherley's four major comedies. It holds up dullness as the worst of sins, wit as the greatest virtue. If it preaches anything at all, it is that sex is, at bottom, a laughing matter. The play was revived on Broadway by Augustin Daly, in a heavily bowdlerized version, 52 years...
There were no cold dead fish in the bottom of his returning boat when Franklin Roosevelt on his voyage southward paused at Trinidad to try a little off-shore trolling. Nor was there anything cold and dead about the streets of Rio de Janeiro last week when he set foot upon Brazilian soil. Upwards of 150,000 Brazilians vented few cheers, but clapped their hands in delight at the sight of the President of the U. S. and their own President Getulio Dornellas Vargas appearing so democratically, side by side in ordinary business suits, as they rode through the city...
...Baron Beaverbrook, most powerful press tycoon of Fleet Street, arrived in Manhattan on the Bremen last week to face reporters eager to get at the bottom of why his Daily Express and other London papers have not printed the Mrs. Simpson story. "You are the censor!" cried a reporter. Replied Lord Beaverbrook...
...Washington to observe the centennial of the U. S. Patent Office as an autonomous organization. Lionized were six famed inventors: Orville Wright; Simon Lake, pioneer submarine experimenter who is currently trying to salvage $4,000,000 in gold from the hulk of an old British frigate at the bottom of New York's East River; Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, RCA-Victor television ace; William David Coolidge, General Electric's No. 1 x-ray researcher; Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion radio tube; and Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite...