Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reverting to the simile of his Jackson Dry speech-that $600,000,000 of holding company money controlling $13,000,000,000 of utilities is like a four-inch tail wagging a a6-in. dog-Franklin Roosevelt summed it up for the reporters: Mr. Willkie simply wished to legalize the four-inch tail for all eternity. The President would never agree to that...
...Chicago vaudeville house, Paul Whiteman & band gave a jazz concert in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall. What it lacked in sincerity as a strictly jazz presentation, it made up in salesmanship, for swing music was launched on a profitable era. Last week, swing having been to the dog house and back as far as national appreciation is concerned, Benny Goodman, a far more serious artist than Mr. Whiteman and one of the principal reasons that swing came back, gave a concert in Carnegie Hall.* Whiteman had played there, too, but this was different...
February 4, 5-6, Laconia (Sied Dog Races...
...Here is a 96-inch dog being wagged by a four-inch tail...
...passed, the number of rooms in the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, the speed of railroads, the price of cotton. But the most notable feature of his trip was its hardships: he was seasick on the Lancashire going South ("I would not wish an enemy's dog a sorer punishment than this deadly seasickness"), exasperated by the slowness of railroads as well as by the smoke in cars that threatened to "transfer us into bacon," frightened by the possibility that the train would go off the track or a rail come through the floor...