Word: brushoffs
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...cocktail party in Washington last week, Joe McCarthy, the only Senator present, got the brushoff, sat moodily in the corner by himself. But when he went home to Wisconsin he got many a cheer from people who approved his target so much that they didn't criticize his aim. At Wisconsin's Republican convention, 2,500 delegates applauded long & loudly his keynote speech on Communists in Government. Then they whooped through a resolution to "heartily commend and encourage" McCarthy's efforts. Only one man got up to object. Lawyer Perry J. Stearns, a candidate for the Senate...
...course Salesman Talbott became advertising vice president of Joyce, Inc., one of the world's biggest makers of women's play shoes. To get a line on women's likes & dislikes, he tried a door-to-door canvass, but busy housewives gave him the brushoff. So he packed a laundry bundle and started talking to women at self-service laundries, where they had plenty of time to kill. Besides talking, he read magazine ads to the women to see which words got a rise out of them...
...Koreans, oppressed for the last 40 years by Japanese masters, although they conducted an underground government aimed at the sabotage of Nipponese imperialism and have assisted the American occupation for as long as they could conscientiously believe in it, still are given a polite brushoff whenever they broach the matter of entry into...
Fred Allen and James W. Russell 1GB aren't talking any more. Allen's agents have given Russell the brushoff and have stated that Russell "doesn't qualify for a new Ford"--the car that he wanted as reimbursement for a radio prize he might have won over WHBS...
...Henry Wallace, a brushoff: "A somewhat inconsistent 'do-gooder' in politics, unwilling Ox more probably unable to give straight answers to straight and relevant questions...