Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sport than ever before in its history at Harvard, the 145-pound class boasts its greatest number of strong aspirants. From the captaincy of last year's Freshmen comes Brooks Cavin, strong and particularly effective with his legs, and undefeated in his four matches of Varsity competition. Ed Farley, last year's Varsity man and semi-finalist in last year's Intercollegiates, is now restored to good academic standing. Don McGranahan, who wrestled as either a 135 or 145-pounder, is back this year after being kept from last year's Yale meet with a strained shoulder, with which...
Last week was Report Week in Washington. There was the report of the Federal Aviation Commission (see below). There was Postmaster General Farley's report on "What It Cost the Army to Fly the Mail." And there was the report of Federal Transportation Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman. Of them all, the Eastman report was the most comprehensive, the most likely to furnish material for legislation at this session of Congress...
...Commission also recommended that the Interstate Commerce Commission be empowered temporarily to revise airmail rates under Postmaster General Farley's "bargain" system, pending permanent legislation. Zealous lest the New Deal's attitude toward the "profit motive" be overlooked, the President said: "I concur in this recommendation . . . provided always that the grant of this duty to the Interstate Commerce Commission be subject to provisions against unreasonable profits by any private carrier. . . . It is only fair to suggest that during this period any profits at all by such companies should be a secondary consideration. Government aid in this case...
Then he sat down and wrote notes of apology to Messrs. Harrison, Cummings and Farley...
...been dramatized before and will doubtless be dramatized again. This particular adaptation of the Russian narrative is no less sombre than its predecessors. As Raskolnikoff, the impoverished student who murders a woman pawnbroker with the mad idea that money stolen from her will right a number of wrongs, Morgan Farley is about as wretched a figure as "Ma" Lester, the itinerant dustbin of Tobacco Road. Actor Farley rolls his eyes in terror, clenches his palms, bellows fearfully when his conscience begins to get the better of him. He evidently enjoys his part best of all in the final scene...