Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outlook on government is serious, heavy. Married, father of two sons, he gets fun out of tending a small but elaborate flower garden behind his Chevy Chase home. When President Hoover returns from his Caribbean cruise Mr. Joslin will retire from the Colorado Building's so-called "Brain Trust"* to begin his White House duties...
...Four or five correspondents take connecting offices in a Washington building, exchange information, "black sheets" (carbon copies of news stories), work cooperatively. These news combinations are jestingly referred to as "brain trusts...
...atmosphere breathed its spell upon him. This would never do! Death and the graveyard spun their eery way through the network of his brain. An owl screeched in the German Museum. His mind played pranks and he looked down the dismal stretches to the rain-swept pavement below. Suicide...
...dallied with the thought, tossing it around the corners of his room. And then, pinned up on his daily calendar, he espied a way out of it all. He had found balm for his fevered brain. And he breathed a prayer of fervent thanks to Professor Greenough. For today at 2 o'clock in Sever 11, the Professor would have the answer to his problems. How to be a gentleman, what were the spooks in the Vagabond's garret, and what was this life beyond the grave. Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, and Gray, would be the pinnacles of the hour...
Odds-on bets on the subject of the fiery dictator's drama would probably not disappoint their backer. "Campo di Maggio," Il Duce's brain-child, is being given in Hungary as "The Hundred Days." That Mussolini's favorite hero, the Little Corporal, will hold the center of the stage is not to be doubted. The choice of subject has its advantages. If the artistic merits of the play should prove incapable of raising it above the waters of Lethe, it will at all events be kept above the waves by half a dozen lines in the bibliography of works...