Word: crabbedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But what the bill omitted was most important. Ignored entirely were wages, still rising nationally. Opposition by Virginia's crabbed old Carter Glass drove out a limit on installment credit. A provision for a ceiling on rising rents was jokered down to nothingness. (The bill limits rent-fixing power...
In his remark about the empyreumatical mackerel (TIME, May 26), Mr. Fly was on the right scent, but he failed to tell us anything about his authority for the quotation. Crabbed, although highly interesting, John Randolph of Roanoke shot it at Henry ("Mill-boy of the Slashes") Clay. His exact...
HARDY OF WESSEX-Carl J. Weber-Columbia University Press ($3). Centennial biography of the great tragic English novelist, which traces the originals of Hardy's Wessex characters. Hardy of Wessex offers an excellent dossier on Hardy's weaknesses-his melodramatics, re-use of plots, gnarled syntax, dullnesses-gives...
Among the facts in Calvin Coolidge will be found the best pro-Coolidge account of the Boston Police Strike of 1919, which rocketed Governor Coolidge to national fame. Biographer Fuess traces the most detailed account of Coolidge's pre-Presidential career, his rise from clerk in the Northampton, Mass...
Three others-Hughes, Roberts, Stone-were older but tinged with varying degrees of liberalism. Only one out-&-out reactionary was left-crabbed, 78-year-old James Clark McReynolds.