Word: frocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton. At that time the college was beginning to feel keenly the tug of new winds of liberal doctrine, and in the words of one who was a Freshman at the time. "It seemed a backward step to take a man with a white lawn tie, a black frock coat, side whiskers and the pallor of a medieval monk, to preside over a college devoted chiefly to the liberal arts." Patton had been a Presbyterian pastor, and a professor in the Princeton Theological School; he had a claustral and philosophic austerity that raised fears for the new administration among both...
...large, heavyset, clean-shaven, with big hands and feet, a thick neck. His nickname ("Iron Man") derives from his physique and stamina on the stump. In the Senate he shuns frock-coats, fancies business suits of a reddish-brown worsted. In debate he is a ready speaker with a strong clear voice. When he rises at his desk, he throws out his chest and stiffens his shoulders like a fighter going into action. His formal speeches, meaty with facts, are carefully prepared in advance. His mind and tongue both move slowly. Personally pleasant, he has a serious temperament that bars...
Last week Boston's booming Mayor Curley was loudly debating issues with a onetime Republican Governor of Kentucky in Omaha while Kentucky's homespun Senator Barkley raced to Wheeling to open the West Virginia drive. From the American Legion Convention at Portland frock-coated Josephus Daniels orated his way eastward by easy stages. In last week's Satevepost the one-time Secretary of the Navy wrote glowingly of his wartime subordinate, "Franklin Roosevelt As I Know Him." Waashing-ton's chubby Senator Dill was all set to carry the Roosevelt power issue up & down the Pacific coast. As soon...
...appeal which President Hoover made last week urging Germany to re-enter the Geneva Armaments Conference (TIME, Sept. 26). When Secretary Stimson told United Press that he was "unaware" of Senator Reed's conversations in London and Paris the vocal comment of many a top-hatted, frock-coated European statesman...
...Negro policemen and a dozen frock-coated ushers, some 4,000 U. S. Negroes marched briskly into St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan one day last week. At the head were the Knights of St. John, perspiring in gay full dress and cocked hats with long white feathers. St. Benedict's Commandery followed, with its Ladies' Auxiliary in blue-sashed white dresses; then small pickaninnies, the white-veiled Children of Mary, led by Negro nuns; at the end, many a Negro member of the Holy Name and St. Vincent de Paul societies. The 4,000 Negroes were...