Word: flyspeck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...problems of foreign policy were both vast and minute. Martinique, 385 square miles, pop. 246,712, was a typical illustration: six months ago a map flyspeck of no consequence to the U. S. people, but now vital. Just in time, the Havana Conference had assembled the machinery to meet such problems: occupation of any American danger point by any American nation; joint administration of such occupied territories...
Your invitation in TIME'S flyspeck-nailing department for the brethren to send in their definitions of the word "liberal" and appraisals of its application to Franklin ("The Heart") Roosevelt [TIME, May 9 et seq] ought to bring down on you more echoing bathos than has been heard since the last Fireside Chat...
...more respects than price and profit. Franklin Roosevelt was its speaker. At its snowy tables were arrayed the immaculate bosoms of Cabinet members, of all loyal Senators and party wheel-horses who had not been sent into the field, of lobbyists to whom $100 is a mere flyspeck on the expense account, of timid-looking souls who may have been frightened by stern letters of invitation, of would-be office holders, of nobodies whose sense of importance was enlarged by attending a $100 dinner. Two noteworthy guests were Messrs. Walter P. Chrysler and William Green. Madam Secretary Perkins and Madam...