Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressure. For it happens that my brother* has always had a great fondness for raw eggs, and when he was a youngster my mother was more than once startled by discovering that a box apparently full of eggs was really half empty! But it would undoubtedly be infra-dig for Scotland Yard or the Surete Generale even to entertain such a simple explanation! By the way, TIME in its article on L'Affaire d'Espionnage, March 26. repeats another old canard by saying that my father "Theodore Switz [was] a naturalized Russian." Actually my father was born...
...passage in the House. Few members understood the measure's technicalities and fewer still cared to. Republicans made more of its past than its future. Illinois' Britten charged that it was written by "the scarlet fever boys in the little red house in Georgetown"-a dig at Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen, New Deal legalites who keep bachelor hall at $50 each per month in an old brick house in Washington's suburb. The whole country, said this hard-bitten Congressman, was whispering about these "radicals." Shouted Ohio's Truax: "They're not radical...
Boomed Lawyer Neylan: "I am very sorry that it is felt necessary to dig up old prejudices to explain this telephoto matter." He referred to rising costs of newspaper production, to the demands of labor unions and editorial guilds. Then: "My heart aches for the guilds and I think they have the best claim of anybody. But why in the name of God should the newspapers get worried about Walter Gifford [president of A. T. & T.]? Have you seen the A. T. & T. balance sheet . . .? If this plan is generally adopted none of us will have an advantage...
...large Puerto Rican population) declared: ''To overlook the obligations we owe to Puerto Rico and its citizens is something I cannot approve. The act will add at least 200 million dollars a year to the cost of sugar. ... In short. we ruthlessly abandon Puerto Rico and dig into our pocketbooks for the beet sugar farmers...
...Japanese immigrants were still welcome in Paraguay last week. A shipload of them arrived in Asunsion on their way to dig cotton plantations out of the forests of Eastern Paraguay not far from a similar settlement of White Russians. The Paraguayan Government demanded only one thing: Should the present tide in the Chaco war turn and Bolivia start to invade Paraguayan territory, the new immigrants must serve in the army. ¶ Next problem was Russia and the Kamchatka fishing leases (TIME, March 5). Russia had refused to renew the Japanese leases because she felt that with the yen off gold...