Word: grouch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anson) Conger Goodyear, 60, looks like a healthy yeoman with whitening stubble hair and frosty blue eyes. He grew up in Buffalo, N. Y., where he had the luck to know a little girl named Mabel Dodge (later Luhan). who has recorded that his nickname was "Grouch" Goodyear. A Yaleman, class of '99. a Wartime colonel and commander of the 81st Field Artillery, "Grouch" Goodyear is president of Great Southern Lumber Co. and board chairman of Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad Co. He is also president of the Museum of Modern...
Author Minehan learned some useful tips on the art of begging. Said one adept: "Poorly dressed men with a grouch and a mean look are often the best prospects because they don't get hit so much." He learned to understand such lingo as: "I'm on the fritz, see? And I carries the banner slinking harness bulls. Until glims. Then I batters private plunging like a gandy dancer and red bulls sock into the old heavy-foot himself. 'Tooting ringers for a scoffing?' he says. 'Come wid me, I'll give...
...which last week struck down the President's economy program on the Senate floor. Democratic Senators had suddenly become alarmed about delegating enormous powers to the White House. They were resentful at the way the President had treated them on patronage. They took out their grouch on his recovery bill...
...Partisans were saying approximately the same thing: "Hoover saved the country from wrack and ruin; give him a chance to finish the job." Such a defensive drive was difficult to make because the electorate, battered by hard times, seemed in no mood to be sweetly reasoned out of its grouch against the Administration. Most Republican managers, despite their required official optimism, admitted off the record that the party had on its hands an ominous, perhaps hopeless fight...
...Poplar Bluff, Mo., "Uncle" Tommy Kemp, 118, complained of feeling old. Said he: "I've been puny most of the spring and couldn't do my farming. . . . About all I can do is sit around the house and be a grouch...