Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lumber and banking when Atlantic City began booming as a resort, became a local tycoon. Seniority of service advanced him to the No. 3 majority place on the House Ways & Means Committee. There his dexterous management of politics and finance won him a reputation as the committee's "brain." A mixer and a fixer, sporty in attire, facially ferocious but personally pleasant, grey-bristly-haired Representative Bacharach is one of Speaker Longworth's closest friends and, as such, a power in House affairs...
...Eskimo at the North Pole might as well have been mayor ; while he was in Chicago his head quarters were in a hotel room where he spent his time playing checkers with a policeman. He calls me loony. Did you ever see a shambling imbecile whose dis eased brain didn't defend its lunacy by snarling at others? To refer to him as a blubbering charlatan perhaps is charitable. Even a lunatic may not be charged with complete mental bankruptcy...
...have come to the conclusion that it will be next to impossible to directly pin anything to Bishop Cannon. I am sincere in saying that I consider him to have the best brain in America, no one excepted. He has without exception foreseen and prepared for every attack made upon him. ?Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whom Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is suing for $5,000,000 for "false, scandalous, defamatory and malicious libel" (TIME...
First thing that Mr. Hearst's "best brain in America" managed to do after he had crutched his aching way into the hearing was to transform the quasi-grand jury into a petit jury of twelve good men and diffident. He gained the privilege of cross-examining his accusers and their witnesses. Also he gained the valuable opportunity of presenting his counter-arguments...
...lives, the most important thing we can do is to cultivate the tool that we must work with, that is, out minds," President Lowell went on to say. "To be successful in life, we must have an excellent tool, our brain; and to perfect this brain we must educate it. And by education I do not mean coming to college for four years, for the college cannot educate us. A man must self educate himself. A school or college may drill facts into a student's mind, but what good will that do? All education is self education...