Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This rather personable impeacher, aged 38, comes from Cass County, in the northeastern corner of his State, where hillbillies corner their rabbits in hollow logs and take Levi Garrett snuff (between lower lip and teeth) with their politics. Like many of his neighbors, Congressman Patman is a "hard-shelled" Baptist, frowning upon music, dancing, cards. Two years in the Army made him an ardent American Legionary. A good rabble-rouser, with a quick twangy tongue, he served four years in the Texas Legislature, five years as a local district attorney. Elected to Congress in 1928, he refused to be suppressed...
Several years ago an anonymous friend offered to finance the construction of a building on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets, on a recently acquired plot of ground adjoining the present Spee Club-house, designed to combine under one roof the offices now in Wadsworth House and the H.A.A. quarters in the basement of the Union. Business conditions have prevented the carrying out of this plan...
...quirk of "loyalty to my friend André" (Tardieu) he insisted that in a Cabinet of which he was Premier his friend must be a Minister. To form a cabinet including Friend Andre at that moment proved impossible. Again M. Laval slipped into obscurity; but 1931 was just around the corner. Briefly Theodore Steeg, former French Resident General of Morocco, headed a shaky, stopgap Cabinet...
...later issue, a picture of Senators Gore and Austin, with a well-placed lackey in the corner was no doubt also cut from a group picture and is perhaps equally as misleading. If the account accompanying the latter picture is as accurate as that accompanying the one from Paris, I am afraid my future reading of TIME will not only be with "a grain of salt" but with a handful...
...statesmen have grown suddenly old, banks have failed, nations have rotted on the vine of empire. Such are the things which make men show and thoughtful. Economists are bewildered by economics, reason has not led the world to reason, depression seems a long lane down which there is no corner. And on this lane the Vagabond must leave you. All that he might say has been said before, that which he could do no man would do. But it is his hope that these forces which have made the idiom false and empty may in themselves restore a truer, fuller...