Word: drag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Government was because I felt sure the coming together of all political parties, regardless of past differences, was the only chance of putting this country through its crisis. Today ... I feel that instead of being a source of strength to your Cabinet, I will merely be a drag on it and not in a position to pull my full weight...
Another class of students, also numerous, much prefer to work by themselves and consider meetings with tutors as a drag. Such men are particularly common in the sciences, but are also found in the humanities...
...waving hands, manages to get tangled up with Joan Blondell, chocolate dipper in one of the Ames' factories, and wishes to make her his adopted daughter. Moonfaced Jack Oakie steps in and further complicates the plot until the doughty Donald whips him soundly in a knock-em-down-and-drag-em-out battle which is conducted off-stage to the tune of breaking glass and falling objects to preserve the unities and Donald...
Starting training early for the fox-hunting season, fifty foreseeing Freshmen shattered century-old traditions of "Ye College Yard," Harvard Yard, and whatever it may have been in the meanwhile, by staging a drag-hunt there last night with hounds from the Norfolk Hunt Club...
...knowing a modest, soft-voiced scholar named Henry Allen Moe, who is Secretary of the Guggenheim Foundation, has in twelve years threaded his way through a round 10,000 applications. Secretary Moe spends much time digging out prospective Fellows. A few have been so shy that he "had to drag them in by the heels." When Secretary Moe lights on a likely applicant, he interviews him, tries to find out how much Guggenheim money he will need, what he wants to do with it. After that the fellow is free as air, may go anywhere he likes, spend his stipend...