Word: browbeaten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time I would like to direct loud cries of scorn at Mr. G. T. Overman whose bigoted, unfair and illogical letter was printed in the same issue. His wife is probably a meek, browbeaten little woman who "makes his life-and "gives him nothing but a pain in the neck'' by occasionally asking him not to swear so much...
...through the Bonus (1924) and forced its part-payment (1931), both over Presidential vetoes. Spanish War pensions were upped and widened. The presumption date whereby veterans could legally attribute any ailment to World War service and thus draw full military compensation kept moving forward through the years. Finally a browbeaten Congress voted to compensate all veterans disabled in civil life, with pensions for all widows and orphans of all veterans as the next objective. The cost of these accumulating pension payments passed the $900,000,000-per-year mark-nearly one-quarter of the Federal budget...
...enlivening than would be expected, but a visit to the common room after almost any meal reveals that fraternity has not thawed the icy rodent heart. In all things a sober, studious tenor is preserved, an anomalous condition which has several causes: many resent the appellation, "Rabbitt"; others are browbeaten by the influence of Mather, which has been aptly likened to a prison yard; but chiefly, there is a pervasive atmosphere of dignified indifference, established by the more mature residents, which, though stultifying, is not without its merits...
...entertainment, burlesque requires no rehearsal. It is a traditional art. There are some 400 "bits" and Brother Billy simply specifies what series of bits he wants his stock company to perform each week. Sample "bit" is "Bibs & Bibs," involving two couples, one including a henpecked husband, the other a browbeaten wife. After a few drinks the situation is reversed...
...last week to the Third Annual Banquet of the Advisory Centre For Intending Suicides. Anyone consulting the Advisory Centre is promised and may depend upon: 1) "absolute secrecy" (not even the police will be told); 2) "absolute non-interference with the final decision" (no prospective suicide will be nagged, browbeaten or cajoled into remaining alive). During the hearty banquet last week leading Viennese stage folk (not all of them comedians) did their best to entertain the 1,000 strange guests, some of whom actually laughed before they went away to brood. "We estimate that 70% of the people who consult...