Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago Page No. 22 began to come to life as a critic of the New Deal. Since last New Year's not a Tuesday has gone by without a potshot or broadside by Editor George Horace Lorimer in the general direction of Washington. Recurrently the Post flayed the Brain Trust, the Treasury, NRA, ''made" work, experimentation, the Democratic Party, President Roosevelt. It proclaimed that the Government's "spending spree" was conceived to "make [the world] safe for everyone except those who have saved." Of wealth it warned that "redistribution can easily become confiscation." Its editorial titles seemed to strike...
...brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If there were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize." In spite of this frankness ? which some readers may mistake for modesty ? Author Herbert George Wells will continue to be taken at his face value as one of the First Citizens of the (nonexistent) World State. Autobiographer Wells denies that he is a dual personality but admits having a persona, an idea of himself somewhat at variance with the humdrum facts...
What may really be lamentable, and closer home, is that so many citizens of our own country show this same deadly suspicion of the ultra-liberal professorial class, called into the Brain Trust and other high posts to save us lest we perish. The result, so far, seems to be that each is so right the other can be but wrong...
Both cases are to consist of appeals from the judgments rendered in the Superior Court of the Ames Competition, to be reviewed and corrected in the so-called Supreme Court of the Competition, and are of purely mythical origin, brain children of Dean Pound of the Law School. The first, that of John R. Byer vs. Sells Motors, Inc., will have as counsel representatives of the Pollock Club, for the plaintiff, Charles Sanford Maddock and Martin A. Jurow...
While two prison doctors tried to pull the blade from the brain, the prisoner, who had not lost consciousness, smoked a cigaret, chatted quietly. The handle broke off from the blade. The prisoner proceeded to a hospital, with a Catholic chaplain administering final rites. A surgeon with a pair of strong pliers pulled out the blade, leaving Joe Fatigate apparently none the worse for his experience...