Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the abolition of general honors would work a hardship on those young hopefuls who harbor a secret desire to startle father and mother with a degree "cum laude," it would certainly be a welcome measure to tutors, and to those few intellectually honest scholars who want credit only where credit is due. The new regime would do well to overthrow this tottering, tradition-supported anachronism...
...must give the makers of "Looking for Trouble" credit for originality, at least. To build a movie around the institution of telephone trouble shooting, to drag in a couple of sweet love affairs, a murder, no end of fist-fights, and much mad dashing about, is fairly usual; but to wind it all up by shooting a gun which starts an earthquake which hits the lady villain on the head with a multitude of bricks and induces her to confess her sins, thereby saving the lives of all the nice people, is a stroke of sheer genius. Besides that, Jack...
Thus did Mayor Dore dramatize his tax cuts while restoring the city's credit. But last week morals were more important in Seattle than money. Besides, Mayor Dore had antagonized many a voter with his salary cuts and his loud talk. Therefore the good people of Seattle uprose and replaced him, 4-to-3, with Charles Lou Smith...
...Last year President Roosevelt made Publisher Bingham U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and proud indeed was Kentucky to receive this finest feather of diplomatic patronage. Last week, Ambassador Bingham was feeling thoroughly at home in London and thinking he was being a credit to his state and his nation when the Kentucky Legislature petitioned President Roosevelt to recall him immediately and oust him from...
...They dump ashes in the streets. Then there are the handbills. A man can give out 1,000 handbills in an hour. Nobody is interested in them. We do our part, but we don't seem to get much credit. Anyway the streets always seem to be dirty. But the thing about it is, they dirty 'em and we clean 'em up, and they dirty 'em again. . . ." Socialites heartily applauded Street Cleaner Mark O'Connell...