Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy voices of children already playing in the street below. And as I did turn towards the case ment I saw thereupon, in its winter garb of brownish cream-buff spots, a chattering Starling who did strut back and forth in most serious-like manner. And I did guess his errand. Indeed, little one, was my heart most wont to say, I, too, sense the difference. But all will be well; soon we shall cast those bells to the stones that peace and solitude may reign in the Tower once more. At this the little visitor did rejoice, left...
Efforts on the Continent by its leading wiseacres to guess the future Ethiopian-Italian policy of new British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden drove them to arguing last week that inevitably it must be the same as that of Sir Samuel Hoare. To argue thus was worse than premature. "Tony" Eden was still boning up on Egypt and engaged in formal amenities (see p. 19). From London that distinguished wiseacre Augur observed in the New York Times...
...practical purposes all the elements of the budget, except one, had long been disposed of. The requirements of all the regular Government departments had been settled before the President finished his Thanksgiving visit to Warm Springs. The Treasury's guess as to the amount of revenue available in fiscal 1937 had been filed away as a State secret. All that remained was to settle how much money Franklin Roosevelt would ask. not for the Government, but for the unemployed...
Taking the hint, the Press jumped to the conclusion that big Federal works, such as the Florida Canal and Maine's Passamaquoddy Dam. would be separated from Relief projects, brought inside the regular budget. Right or wrong in its guess, the Press was brought up short on a matter of terminology. To a newshawk who asked if the "double-budget system" would be continued, the budget-burdened President gave an irate answer: There never had been any double budget. Regular and Relief expenditures were kept separate for the same reason that the War and Navy Departments were kept separate...
...question last week was whether it could overlook Felix Frankfurter, whose young proteges in Washington are the nearest U. S. approach to the British Civil Service. Since Professor Frankfurter and his "Happy Hot Dogs'' are cordially disliked and distrusted by Republicans, businessmen and most Harvardmen, a good guess was that Harvard will find a way of overlooking...