Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweet music to the New Dealers. First, Mr. Robinson is 64, four years older than the President's arbitrary age limit for judicial appointees. He would not be eligible to retire with pay until he had served ten years and reached 74. Having made a fuss about judges retiring at 70, Franklin Roosevelt would make himself look foolish if he appointed Senator Robinson the first time he had an opportunity to name a Justice to the Supreme Court. Second, as New Dealers well know, Joe Robinson has on many occasions been a New Dealer more out of Party loyalty...
...Fuss AND FEATHERS-Arthur D. Howden Smith-Greystone ($4). Biography of Winfield Scott, 6 ft. 4½ in. hero of the War of 1812, the Indian Wars and the Mexican War, credited with training the best officers of the Union and Confederate armies and with never losing a military engagement, never winning a political...
...Swanson, and dozens of other brass hats proceeded to have tantrums. Cadets of West Point begged for a chance to hang it in a place of honor, but the painting was discreetly hidden to avoid further outbursts. Commented Artist Cadmus: "It's funny they should make a fuss. Everybody knows what sailors...
Those Harvard's in the know have been making an awful fuss about their swimming team. Extravagant embryo bets have been the order. Our fellow columnist, in his locker-room ballad of Dartmouth reported the Crimson lads swimming in Hanover during the Carnival, were all offering even money. But we've not seen any of that money come out of Boston. And right here we'd like to put in our bid for some of that loose-flying Crimson coin...
These are questions highly complex. There is probably no one answer to the great fuss which has been stirred up about big time athletic competition, particularly football. The accusations, the organization and the values it involves will probably leave their mark on the American educational system for some time to come. Even though a more fully developed intra-mural system seems, one of the most promising solutions yet tried, the status quo is firmly entrenched. Whatever the solution one aspect of the question, is today before the student body: as Harvard was the first to build a vast stadium with...