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Word: flyspeck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Another Crisis | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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