Word: ferret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sinew of an inquisition. They not only dig up original facts but stand at the committeeman's elbow helping him with suggestions during the cross examination. Behind Senator Black in the airmail investigation was loud, talkative Fulton Lewis Jr., a Hearstling who two years before had begun to ferret out airmail scandal. In the present investigation, the newshawk seen most frequently over Mr. Black's shoulder is dressy, hard-boiled Paul Y. Anderson, able correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Anderson's whole career has been spent digging up scandals, until today he sees public affairs almost entirely through...
...rowing. At the Professor's death in 1926 he was the oldest living member of the Undine Barge Club. A hard worker, particularly in his later years, Artist Beale seemed to have a more regular income than his infrequently published drawings would indicate. Only last week did newshawks ferret out where it came from...
...Behrman's "Biography" fails to make its point as strongly as did the play. Its softened portrayal of an intolerant young man who is made to see the indiscretion of his attitude by an older woman who has the opposite viewpoint of life, leaves the audience either to ferret out the real meaning of the episode or to take it as merely an entertaining picture. Robert Montgomery is happily less rambunctious than usual and Ann Harding while still sweet, is not nauseatingly...
...prejudice and the beginning of an academic lynch law. We have too little freedom in our universities now; some of them, like the University of Pittsburgh are unfit for any intellectually honest teacher and have sold out to big business. To permit the success of these efforts to ferret out so-called radicals with the students or teachers would be treason to the entire teaching profession. It is as base as it is un-American. Harvard, which, under Lowell, upheld the tradition of academic freedom during the World War better than any other university, will not yield...
Suspecting that members of the Faculty and students are engaged in secret communist agitation, the Hearst Syndicate has assigned a reporter to the College to ferret, out any "red" activities which are taking place unbeknownst to the Administration. It is understood, however, that the reporter, James McEnary, a member of the Boston Evening American staff, failed in his attempt to secure an appointment with President Conant...