Word: frowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, to both parties' alarm, Senator Borah frowned his Olympian frown, waved his Bryanesque backlocks and handed out to Presidential candidates a questionnaire on the great Hush-Hush of the 1928 campaign, Prohibition. It was a sequel to the Borah speaking tour on the same subject (TIME, Nov. 28). It threatened to make a political issue out of a subject in which citizens are actually interested...
Tariff Tabled. Tariff revision is a House prerogative. Tariff reduction is anathema to Republicans. So the chubby face of Speaker Longworth darkened with a double frown when, last week, a clerk brought into the House the Senate's resolution for immediate tariff reduction (TIME, Jan. 23). Democrats cried out for action, but Speaker Longworth ruled them out of order and left the resolution "in midair" as a mere opinion of the Senate which the House could and would ignore...
...Chamber of Commerce received another Presidential frown. Rebuked for insisting on a tax cut nearly double what the Administration considers safe, Banker Lewis Eugene Pierson of Manhattan, president of the U. S. Chamber, announced last fortnight that three-fourths of all Chambermen favor the U. S. assuming the entire cost of Mississippi flood control instead of 80% of construction costs and 90% of realty costs as recommended by President Coolidge (TIME, Dec. 5, Dec. 26). Last week President Coolidge said that while some of the U. S. Chamber's activities are "helpful", others are not. He said he understood that...
Reporters read: "Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the glad and wholesome contagion of cheerfulness. If frowns and distempers are contagious, we thank Thee that smiles are not less so. The smile goes forth from face to face. By the strange law of increase, gladness begets gladness. Remembering then that no frown ever made a heart glad, help us go forth to meet the day with high hope and smiling face; and even though it has not been easy to smile, let us rejoice if so we have been able to add to the sum of human happiness and make...
...enemy. Coast dwellers frown when the grey banks drift in and smother the buoys. At sea the slowed ships feel their way; the sirens mourn incessantly. Voices are lowered in a fog, which muffles them yet lower as though it shrouded something grave about to happen. Fog, several hours of it, gets on men's nerves. Two thousand miles of groping through fog might drive two men in an airplane-a land airplane over an ocean-close to distraction. So thought radio operators listening last week to the day-and- nightlong flashes of Ernest L. Smith, civilian pilot...